This video is part of The Virtual Field’s 360º Video series featuring a sandstone bedrock layer near the top of a CA Inner Coast Range watershed, where a perennial spring provides relief in the hot, dry summer months. To the north: In the immediate foreground is a rocky ledge that serves as a ‘landing strip’ for generations of vultures that water and wash here in the summer months. It also supports a rare patch of tule habitat. Slightly to the north and east of the ledge is a dormant California buckeye, the large round seeds evident in the foreground. Buckeyes are good indicators of water seep lines. An interior live oak (Q. wislizeni) is the evergreen just to the north of the buckeye, and is an indicator of the canyon and chaparral habitat ecotone. Chaparral habitats are more common to the north-facing slopes of the reserve, in this case due east of the camera and not visible. In the main frame, a south-facing grassland savannah is dominated by blue oak (Q. douglassii) woodlands interspersed with high canyon patches of mixed scrub (s/a toyon, live oak, Ceanothus sp.). To the far north/northwest of the camera is the northern ‘gate’ of the Putah Creek river which has forged a deep gorge (the Devil’s Gate) in this section of the coast range. The Monticello Dam wall, constructed in (?) to supply water to the Travis Air Force Base, is visible at the base of the north gate. To the east: The spring bubbles out at the base of the mat of dried tule (cat tails?) in a cascade of sedimentary rocks and holds water through the driest of summers. The upper east side of the view is the top of the watershed where rocky outcrops are dominated by old growth scrub oaks (Q. berberidifoilia) and patches of unique floral assortments? (s/a Yerba Santa, Dudlea sp., To the south: buckeyes in the mosslands! Moss-covered north-facing transitional zone (canyon to chaparral). Dormant? buckeyes in the center ground giving way to chaparral scrublands in the background with toyon, coyote, dominant chamise, red bud (in ecotone).. To the west: Dormant buckeys giving way to chaparral scrublands behind.