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The Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve was assembled in several stages; two parcels, comprising 3,100 acres (13 km 2), were purchased by The Nature Conservancy in 1984. The intervening parcels were purchased in the 1990s by the State of California , the Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District , [ 3 ] and the Metropolitan Water ...
The Santa Rosa Flat Formation is a geologic formation in California. It preserves fossils dating back to the Permian period. See also. Earth sciences portal;
The park is within the Cascade Range and Modoc Plateau natural region, with 910 acres (370 ha) of forest and 5 miles (8.0 km) of streamside and lake shoreline, including a portion of Lake Britton. The park's centerpiece is the 129-foot (39 m) Burney Falls .
The oldest rocks in California date back 1.8 billion years to the Proterozoic and are found in the San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, and Mojave Desert.The rocks of eastern California formed a shallow continental shelf, with massive deposition of limestone during the Paleozoic, and sediments from this time are common in the Sierra Nevada, Klamath Mountains and eastern Transverse ...
The Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument is managed by a mosaic of entities, including the Bureau of Land Management (89,500 acres (362 km 2)), US Forest Service (65,000 acres (260 km 2)), Cahuilla peoples (19,800 acres (80 km 2)), California Department of Parks and Recreation (12,900 acres (52 km 2)), other State of ...
The Santa Rosa Wilderness is a 72,259-acre (292.42 km 2) wilderness area in Southern California, in the Santa Rosa Mountains of Riverside and San Diego counties, California. It is in the Colorado Desert section of the Sonoran Desert , above the Coachella Valley and Lower Colorado River Valley regions in a Peninsular Range , between La Quinta to ...
The Santa Rosa Island Formation is a geologic formation in California. It preserves fossils. See also. Earth sciences portal; California portal; Paleontology portal;
Originally, the Russian River was one of several rivers draining westward from the Mayacamas Mountains through the Mendocino Plateau to the sea, a region lifted up by tectonic forces. The Navarro River drained from the Cobb Mountain area, while the Russian River drained from the Mt. St. Helena area. Being at a lower elevation, the Russian River ...