University of California Natural Reserve System

history & archive project

UC Santa Cruz NRS Campus Office and Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory

Information

UC Santa Cruz administers five reserves. The NRS campus office directly administers Fort Ord Natural Reserve (FON) and the UCSC Campus Natural Reserve (CNR), and the UCSC Institute of Marine Sciences’ Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory administers Año Nuevo Island Reserve (ANI) and Younger Lagoon Reserve (YLR). The CNR is not part of the NRS, but it is very much a part of the history of reserve use at UCSC. Landels-Hill Big Creek (LHBC) is the only UCSC reserve with offsite facilities and a separate reserve director, though plenty of materials at UCSC still pertain to the site.

On-site Collections

Off-site Collections