User Experience and Safety

Protecting Our Resources

CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL RESOURCES

TASP is the traditional homeland territory of the Southern Pomo tribe. The park also featured historic uses such as cattle grazing and quarrying. Many sensitive tribal and historic resources exist in the park:

  • Precontact cultural resource sites (e.g., bedrock mortars, lithic scatter)
  • Tribal cultural resources (e.g., vegetation, significant landscapes)
  • Historic quarries
  • Historic structure, walls, roads, and railroad grades
    • WETLANDS & VERNAL POOLS

    There are wetlands, marshes, and vernal pools throughout TASP. The largest wetland areas are around False Lake Meadow, Lake Insanjo, north of Lake Ilsanjo, and around Ledson Marsh.

    SENSITIVE PLANTS AND WILDLIFE

    Numerous listed and rare plant species exist within TASP:

  • California red-legged frog
  • Northwestern pond turtle
  • Leech’s skyline diving beetle
  • Fragrant frittilary
  • Callistoga ceanothus
  • Sonoma ceanothus


    • VEGETATION COMMUNITIES

    TASP features many vegetation communities:

  • Northern oak woodland
  • Redwood and douglas fir forest
  • Grasslands
  • Chaparral

    • Existing Road and Trail Sustainability

    Non-System Routes

    Park Access, Trails & Facilities