Education: San Diego's Habitats
A free booklet offered to teachers in San Diego
County
San Diego's Habitats is a colorful booklet filled with eye-catching images of animals and plants found in San Diego County. Each habitat has its own section: coast, coastal sage and chaparral, desert, streamsides, woodlands and forests, and Torrey pines. There is also a section about animals no longer found in San Diego County and why, as well as information on some of the conservation efforts being made to help the remaining wildlife.
The wild world of San Diego County
What comes to mind when you think of San Diego County? For many of us, it's images of sprawling suburbs, a maze of freeways, and the beautiful city of San Diego itself.
But outside the city and the suburbs lies an older, wilder, San Diego. Take a back road off the freeway and you'll find a natural world of forests and deserts, wetlands, coastline, and rolling brush land little changed by the passage of time and the coming of civilization.
San Diego's diverse and varied wild lands are a rich tapestry of life woven from many habitats, including coastal sage, deserts, wetlands, forests, and beaches. Here, you can drive from one of the richest coastlines in the world through mountains and ancient forests to rugged desert wilderness in just one day.
Excerpted from San Diego's Habitats, a publication of the Zoological Society of San Diego.
To request this free booklet for your classroom, send us an e-mail request.
Accompanying curriculum is available as a downloadable PDF.
