Bodega Marine Reserve

Bodega Marine Reserve
Bodega Marine Reserve
	Bodega Marine Lab from the south, looking across Horseshoe Cove of Bodega Bay
Location	Sonoma County, California
Coordinates	38°19′3″N 123°4′19″W / 38.31750°N 123.07194°W
Area	362 acres (0.566 sq mi)
Governing body	University of California, Davis
Website	https://marinescience.ucdavis.edu/bml/bmr

Bodega Marine Reserve is a 362-acre (146 ha) nature reserve and marine reserve on the coast of northern California, located in the vicinity of the Bodega Marine Laboratory on Bodega Head. It is a unit of the University of California Natural Reserve System, administered by the University of California, Davis.^[1]

Along California's north central coast, BMR is the only marine area protected for research and education.^[2]

Features

The reserve is adjacent to Bodega Bay and the open Pacific Ocean, on a peninsula in rural western Sonoma County.

Natural hazards of the area include high cliffs, sleeper waves, white sharks, poison oak, Lyme disease, hantavirus, skunks, and mountain lions.^[3]

^ "Bodega Marine Reserve". Archived from the original on February 2, 2009. Retrieved January 14, 2009.
^ "Bodega Marine Reserve". July 8, 2015. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
^ "Bodega Marine Reserve: Reserve Cautions". Archived from the original on April 8, 2009. Retrieved January 14, 2009.