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Historic exploitation and abuse at the hands of the majority group have led many governments to give uncontacted people their lands and legal protection. Many Indigenous groups live on national forests or protected grounds, such as the Vale do Javari in Brazil [14] or North Sentinel Island in India. [15] Uncontacted peoples in the state of Acre ...
The largest forest entirely within the state is Shasta-Trinity National Forest, at 2,209,832 acres (8,942.87 km 2), the smallest is Cleveland National Forest at 460,000 acres (1,900 km 2). The Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is not precisely a national forest in the conventional sense. Instead the Forest Service manages the land with ...
The Cleveland National Forest is a U.S. National Forest in Southern California that encompasses 460,000 acres/720 sq mi (1,900 km 2) of inland montane regions. It is approximately 60 miles from the Pacific Ocean, within the counties of San Diego , Riverside , and Orange .
Cuyamaca Rancho State Park is located in the Peninsular Range, which extends from the San Jacinto Mountains north of the park, southward to the tip of Baja California.At the western edge of the most seismically active area in North America, the range is a great uplifted plateau, cut off from the Colorado Desert to the east by the Elsinore Fault Zone, where vertical movement over the last two ...
The San Diego River and the Sweetwater River both have headwaters in the Cuyamacas. The Cuyamaca Reservoir lies adjacent to the east side of the range. Mountains are primarily protected within the Cleveland National Forest. Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, with California oak woodlands habitat, is located in the range.
The area near Yucaipa was known as a crossroads for traveling indigenous people. [1] Historic buildings remain in the park from the 1930s Hi Up House ranch and 1940s Hunt Ranch eras. [1] After a flood threatened developers' housing subdivision plans, the California Department of Parks and Recreation acquired 900 acres (360 ha) in the canyon. In ...
The Otay Mountain Wilderness is a U.S. wilderness area in San Diego County, California, 12 miles east of the community of Otay Mesa and just north of the Mexico–United States border. Some parts of the wilderness area rise quickly from sea level, reaching a peak of just over 3,500 feet (1,100 m) at the summit of Otay Mountain. [3]
Mount Laguna is a small census-designated place (CDP) in San Diego County, California.It is approximately 6,000 feet (1,800 m) above sea level in a forest of Jeffrey pine, east of San Diego in the Laguna Mountains on the eastern edge of the Cleveland National Forest.