page_title: Pine Hill Ecological Reserve
section_title: Rare plants
hierarchical_section_title: Pine Hill Ecological Reserve / Flora / Rare plants
caption_attribution_description: English: Calystegia stebbinsii. BLM photo, no copyright.
context_page_description: Pine Hill Ecological Reserve is a nature reserve of 403 acres located due east of Folsom Lake in the Sierra Nevada foothills, in El Dorado County, California. The reserve was established in 1979, and is managed by the California Department of Fish and Game.
  The Pine Hill Ecological Reserve is one unit of the much larger Pine Hill Preservesystem that consists of five separate units of varying size that total more than 4,000 acres and protects eight rare plants and their gabbro soil habitat. It is jointly managed by several local, state and federal agencies through a Cooperative Management Agreement.
context_section_description: Rare plants are protected at the federal level by the Endangered Species Act (ESA) which mandates that the agencies authorized by the ESA (US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Marine Fisheries Service) provide the secretary of interior the names of species needing protection, a final determination is then made by the secretary and the list is published in the Federal Register, the species are now officially "listed" or "federally listed". The Endangered Species Act also requires these same agencies to undertake recovery plans with the goal of delisting the species (for example, the bald eagle is no longer a listed endangered species.)
  The state of California has four similar laws: The California Endangered Species Act, Native Plant Protection Act, California Environmental Quality Act, and Natural Comminities Conservation Planning Act.
  The five plant species that are state and federally listed are:
caption: Stebbins' morning glory.
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