About the Corridor:  Resource Values

Special Designations  |||  Vegetation  |||  Wildlife

SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS
The Puente-Chino Hills have been designated by a variety of experts as unique and valuable habitat in the following ways:

• A California Missing Linkage
      By South Coast Wildlands Project
          The California Wilderness Coalition
          The Nature Conservancy
          The Biological Resources Division of the United States Geological Survey
          The Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species of the Zoological Society of San Diego
          California State Parks
• Critical Habitat for the California Gnatcatcher
      By United States Fish & Wildlife Service
• Hot Spot of Biodiversity
      By E.O. Wilson and others
• Significant Ecological Area #15
      By The County of Los Angeles
• Significant Natural Area #94 
      By The California Department of Fish & Game
   

VEGETATION
There are many varieties of plants, trees, and grasses that contribute to the beauty of the Corridor. The vegetation grows in communities just like the communities in which people live. These communities include walnut woodland, oak woodland, southern willow scrub, freshwater marsh, and coastal sage scrub. Each vegetation community supports a variety of wildlife that find food, safety, and homes among the particular kinds of plants and trees that grow there.  

WILDLIFE
The Puente-Chino Hills Wildlife Corridor contains an amazing diversity of animal life - deer, coyotes, foxes, bobcats, hawks, owls, opossums, raccoons, gray squirrels, rabbits, quail, doves, and butterflies to name a few. More than 100 animal species migrate through the Corridor and depend on it for part of their lifetime needs. The animals can only survive if they are free to move back and forth to find food, safety, and homes.