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The Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex is part of the United States system of National Wildlife Refuges (NWR). [ 1] It is located in northern California, in the valley of the Sacramento River . The Sacramento NWR Complex was created in an attempt to resolve the conflict between the needs of migrating birds using the Pacific Flyway, and ...
Imperial County, California: 1964 16,627 acres (67.29 km 2) Havasu National Wildlife Refuge: Mojave County, Arizona San Bernardino County, California: 1941 37,515 acres (151.82 km 2) Imperial National Wildlife Refuge: LaPaz and Yuma Counties, Arizona Imperial County, California: 1941 25,768 acres (104.28 km 2) [20] Kofa National Wildlife Refuge
Kern NWR. Kern National Wildlife Refuge is a 11,249-acre (45.52 km 2) protected area located in the southern portion of California 's San Joaquin Valley, 20 miles (32 km) west of the city of Delano. Situated on the southern margin of what was once the largest freshwater wetland complex known as Tulare Lake in the western United States, Kern ...
A sanctuary city is a municipality that limits or denies its cooperation with the national government in enforcing immigration law. A city's council and mayor will usually declare itself a sanctuary city and subsequently enact measures and policies that are welcoming and favorable to migrants. Sanctuary cities undertake the responsibilities of ...
Refugio State Beach ( Chumash: Qasil, "Beautiful" [ 3]) is a protected state beach park in California, United States, approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of Santa Barbara. [ 4] One of three state parks along the Gaviota Coast, it is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west of El Capitán State Beach . The Refugio oil spill occurred just north of the park in ...
1660573 [1] Eagle Mountain is a ghost town in the California desert in Riverside County founded in 1948 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. The town is located at the entrance of the now-defunct Eagle Mountain iron mine, once owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad, then Kaiser Steel, and located on the southeastern corner of Joshua Tree National ...
Income. In 2019, the median household income for U.S.-born Vietnamese Americans was $82,400 [7] As a relatively-recent immigrant group, most Vietnamese Americans are either first or second generation Americans. As many as one million people five years of age and older speak Vietnamese at home, making it the fifth-most-spoken language in the U.S.
Central Valley (California) The Central Valley is a broad, elongated, flat valley that dominates the interior of California. It is 40–60 mi (60–100 km) wide and runs approximately 450 mi (720 km) from north-northwest to south-southeast, inland from and parallel to the Pacific coast of the state. It covers approximately 18,000 sq mi (47,000 ...