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Sentinel Rock is a granitic peak in Yosemite National Park, California, United States. It towers over Yosemite Valley , opposite Yosemite Falls . [ 5 ] Sentinel Rock lies 0.7 miles (1.1 km) northwest of Sentinel Dome .
Wilder Ranch State Park is a California State Park on the Pacific Ocean coast north of Santa Cruz, California. The park was formerly a dairy ranch, and many of the ranch buildings have been restored for use as a museum. There are no campgrounds; a day-use parking lot provides access to the museum.
Coastal California is heavily influenced by east–west distances to the dominant cold California Current as well as microclimates.Due to hills and coast ranges having strong meteorological effects, summer and winter temperatures (other than occasional heat waves) are heavily moderated by ocean currents and fog with strong seasonal lags compared to interior valleys as little as 10 mi (16 km) away.
The California Coastal National Monument is located along the entire coastline of the U.S. state of California. This monument ensures the protection of all islets, reefs and rock outcroppings along the coast of California within 12 nautical miles (22 km) of shore along the entire 840-mile (1,350 km) long coastline.
The project countersued under the SLAPP provisions of California law and prevailed in court. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ note 1 ] The lawsuit drew additional public attention to Streisand's home, giving name to the Streisand effect : the phenomenon in which attempting to hide or censor information instead draws greater attention to the information.
The California Coastal Trail, or CCT, is an environmental project by the California Coastal Conservancy, an organization developed to enhance coastal resources and promote access to the shore in 2001. [1] The trail is designed to connect the entire coast of California by forming an extensive multi-use trail.
Big Basin Redwoods State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of California, located in Santa Cruz County, about 36 km (22 mi) northwest of Santa Cruz.The park contains almost all of the Waddell Creek watershed, which was formed by the seismic uplift of its rim, and the erosion of its center by the many streams in its bowl-shaped depression.
A rare vagrant Ivory Gull on a Central Coast beach. The Central Coast is an area of California, roughly spanning the coastal region between Point Mugu and Monterey Bay.It lies northwest of Los Angeles and south of the San Francisco Bay Area, and includes the rugged, rural, and sparsely populated stretch of coastline known as Big Sur.