Caption: Much of what the Forest Service mapped in 1941 as grassland or "barren'" (which most likely included coastal dunes) on the peninsular
coastline has been subsequently converted to golf courses. Remnant
dunes support a coastal dune scrub community dominated by Artemisia
pycnocephala (beach sagewort), Baccharis pilularis (coyote bush), and
several bush lupines (Lupinus arboreus, L. chamissonis). The
southernmost occurrences for Erysimum menziesii (Menzies wallflower), Layia carnosa (beach layia), Lupinus tidestromii (Tidestrom's lupine), and Gilia tenuiflora ssp. arenaria (dune gilia), all federally endangered species, occur on these remnant dunes (Holland 1986, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1992). It is uncertain what species characterized the grasslands mapped by the Forest Service. Aside from harboring small populations of several of the species that are contained within this proposed rule, these patches of herbaceous vegetation support a large number of non-native grasses and succulents,
as well as opportunistic native herbaceous species (Ferreira 1992a,
Ferreira 1992b). As for the patches mapped by the Forest Service as "sagebrush", these most likely matched what is currently called
coastal sage scrub, a community dominated by Artemisia californica
(California sagebrush). For the most part, these patches occurred
within what are now urbanized portions of the cities of Monterey and Pacific Grove and the Pacific Grove Municipal Golf Course.
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-SPECIES/1995/August/Day-02/pr-344.html
Keywords: Asilomar - Pacific Grove, California, Monterey County
