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Keith White Vegetation Studies at Hastings
Keith White was the vegetation ecologist at Hastings for years in the 1960s. A prolific worker, Keith published on the Monterey Pines, the Blue Oaks, the understory herb layer and the native grasslands.
As we look back to the 1960s, several studies have used these older data sets to compare how things have changed. Keith himself revisited the Monterey Pine data sets. Recently others are investigating the blue oaks and the understory vegetation, both in historically grazed and ungrazed plots. Keith's data on oak woodlands includes hundreds of observations of the frequency of mistletoe in the blue oaks in the early 1960s. This could provided the basis for yet another study.
In 2009, I scanned some of the original maps showing the stand (sampling) locations and the associated data sheets.