Community pneumonia practice standard mandates: can't see the forest for the trees.

O nce you get to Swanton Pacific Ranch in the coastal mountains north of Santa Cruz, it's pretty obvious the 3,200-acre spread offers many things you just won't find at Cal Poly: trees, for one thing. A whole forest full of them 2,100 acres to be exact. They cover steep mountain slopes and march in tall columns down to grassy meadows. A river runs through it: Scott Creek and its tributaries. "The landscape is so different here than on campus," notes natural resources management Professor Brian Dietterick, a certified hydrologist and the ranch's new director. First are coastal forested mountains steep mountains that support perennially flowing streams. The streams serve as habi­ tat for sensitive aquatic species and fish like coho salmon and steelhead trout. Swanton