page_title: Tehachapi Mountains
section_title: Natural history
hierarchical_section_title: Tehachapi Mountains / Natural history
caption_attribution_description: English: Overlooking the eastern half of Tejon Ranch from the Tehachapi Crest of the Tehachapi Mountains - one of the Transverse Ranges. Autumn in the California mixed evergreen forest landscape. Frazier Mountain of the San Emigdio Mountains, within the Los Padres National Forest, is in the background.
context_page_description: The Tehachapi Mountains are a mountain range in the Transverse Ranges system of California in the Western United States. The range extends for approximately 40 miles in southern Kern County and northwestern Los Angeles County.
context_section_description: The  Tehachapi Mountains are a major and crucial wildlife corridor and plant habitat bridge linking the other Transverse Ranges and the California Coast Ranges on the west with the Sierra Nevada on the east. Their relative lack of development, especially in the large Tejon Ranch section, have allowed the continuity of these ecological functions to date.
caption: The California mixed evergreen forest plant community in the upper Tehachapi Mountains
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