Field Offices & Preserves
Which field office manages the largest number of preserves?
The Skyline Field Office (SFO) manages 17 preserves (18 if you count Miramontes Ridge twice)
Which of these animals is a mammal?
a) California newt
b) Banana slug
c) Bobcat
d) Western fence lizard
c) Bobcat
In what year was MidPen founded?
1972
Why isn’t Toto Ranch generally open to the public?
a) Endangered species habitat only
b) It is a working ranch, with limited access through special programs.
c) It’s under construction.
d) It's Haunted
b) It is a working ranch, with limited access through special programs.
Which department is in charge of procuring new open space?
a) Engineering & Construction
b) Procurement
c) Real Property
d) Planning
c) Real Property
What preserve is home to Deer Hollow Farm?
Rancho San Antonio
True or False: A group of turkey vultures perched in trees is called a committee.
True!
In what year was Mount Umunhum Summit opened to the public after being closed since 1980?
2017
The Foldger Family, who owned the Foldger estate, made most of their money in what industry?
a) ranching/farming
b) gold mining during the gold rush
c) industrial factories in San Francisco
d) coffee
d) coffee
"The best part of wakin’ up is Folgers in your cup!"
Name all the conference rooms that are on the second floor in the same wing as the F&F department. (There are four)
Ravenswood, Monte Bello, Coal Creek, and Sierra Azul
Which preserve contains the only campground on Midpen land?
Monte Bello (Black Mountain Backpack Camp)
How long can a tic live without a host (food)?
a) up to 3 hours
b) up to 3 days
c) up to 3 months
d) up to 3 years
d) up to 3 YEARS
What ballot initiative created Midpen? (Measure...)
Measure R ("Room to Breathe")
In which preserve is Toto Ranch located?
Tunitas Creek Open Space Preserve
What are the names of the 3 focus rooms by the F&F Department? (Partial credit available)
Western Red-Tailed Hawk, California Quail, and Anna's Hummingbird
"Umunhum" means ___________ in the Mutsun language.
a) Resting place of the Hummingbird
b) Sacred Mountain
c) Very steep hill
d) Mountainy McMountainface
a) Resting place of the Hummingbird
True or False: Banana slugs have thousands of tiny teeth.
True! They have microscopic teeth on a radula (basically a ribbonish tongue that acts like a microscopic conveyer belt).
Who was the general manager BEFORE Ana Ruiz?
a) Herbert Grench
b) Stephen Abbors
c) Craig Britton
d) Trick Question: There has only ever been Ana Ruiz.
b) Stephen Abbors
Approximately how large is Toto Ranch?
a) 350 acres
b) 650 acres
c) 950 acres
d) 1,500 acres
(approximately)
c) 950 acres
Please spell MidPen's CFO's last name.
(Stefan) Jaskulak
How many acres of land is protected by Midpen?
a) 73,260
b) 34,890
c) 71,809
d) 82,609
a) 73,260
Which of these is NOT a bird?
a) Bittern
b) Phalarope
c) Bushtit
d) Katydid
c) Katydid (it's a green, leaf-like bug!)
Before the AO was located on El Camino Real, it was located in a building on Distel Cir.
Where was it originally located before that?
a) Clark Ave.
b) Latham St.
c) Distel Dr.
c) Distel Dr.
Which famous architect got one of his first California commissions designing the Folger estate?
a) Julia Morgan
b) Bernard Maybeck
c) Arthur Brown Jr.
d) Frank Lloyd Wright
c) Arthur Brown Jr.
*Arthur Brown Jr. later designed San Francisco City Hall, the War Memorial Opera House, and Hoover Tower.
Where in the AO can you find this quote?
"We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope."
-Wallace Stegner, Writer, Teacher, Open Space Adovocate
In the atrium above the Mountain Lion