What’s Growing On: Restoring native oaks.

Imagine for a moment what our Valley looked like only two centuries ago.

Before the mass settlement of California, grizzly bears, herds of tule elk and deer, and sky-darkening flocks of migratory birds were common in what we now call San Joaquin County. Northern Valley Yokuts and Miwok communities lived and thrived within the oak woodlands and riparian forests. It was very different from today.