Canebrake, CA
Canebrake Ecological Reserve is a 6,700-acre nature reserve in the South
Fork Valley of Kern County, 20 miles east of Lake Isabella, California. The
California Department of Fish and Game acquired the land in 1994 amd by 1996,
1,300 acres became the Canebrake reserve, named after Canebrake Creek, a
tributary of South Fork Kern River. A 1.2 mile nature trail crosses Canebrake
Creek, is wheelchair accessible, and has views of cottonwood-willow forest with
several willow species (Salix gooddingii , S . lasiandra , and S . laevigata)
and Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii) that intergrade with a relic stand of
Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia).
-Wikipedia
