Santa Clarita Woodlands - Towsley Canyon Resources
 
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Many animals share the park: mule deer, bobcat, coyote, grey fox, brush rabbit, and even the occasional mountain lion and black bear. Red-tailed hawk and turkey vulture can be seen circling overhead. The park is also the home of the California thrasher, mountain quail, scrub jay, rufous-sided towhee and many other birds.

Park visitors will see a wide variety of plants in the park, including many trees: valley oaks, coast live oaks, California black walnuts, and chaparral flowering ash. Cottonwoods, sycamore and mule fat line the stream channel. Spring is an excellent time to see wildflowers: purple sage, California everlasting, virgin's bower, wild rose, chocolate lily (on Towsley View loop trail), lupine, blue larkspur, yellow mariposa lily, and more! Watch for poison oak--red in fall, lush green growth in the spring and summer--all parts, roots and dormant branches included, are toxic.

 

 

 

 

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