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Lagunitas Creek is a 24-mile-long (39 km) [2] northward-flowing stream in Marin County, California.It is critically important to the largest spawning runs of endangered coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in the Central California Coast Coho salmon Evolutionary Significant Unit (CCC ESU).
Moyle's Inland Fishes of California states that there were historic runs of white, but not green, sturgeon in the Russian River. [26] White sturgeon are the largest freshwater fish in the United States. The Russian River is the largest river in the Central California Coast steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) distinct population segment.
The Inglewood Oil Field in Los Angeles County, California, is the 18th-largest oil field in the state and the second-most productive in the Los Angeles Basin.Discovered in 1924 and in continuous production ever since, in 2012 it produced approximately 2.8 million barrels of oil from some five hundred wells.
Lake Oroville [1] is a reservoir formed by the Oroville Dam impounding the Feather River, located in Butte County, northern California.The lake is situated 5 miles (8 km) northeast of the city of Oroville, within the Lake Oroville State Recreation Area, in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
The Trinity River (Yurok: Hoopa or Hupa; Hupa: hun') is a major river in northwestern California in the United States and is the principal tributary of the Klamath River.The Trinity flows for 165 miles (266 km) through the Klamath Mountains and Coast Ranges, with a watershed area of nearly 3,000 square miles (7,800 km 2) in Trinity and Humboldt Counties.
The western portion of Alta California was then organized and admitted as the 31st state in 1850, as a free state, following the Compromise of 1850. California has the nation's largest economy with a gross state product of $4.132 trillion as of Q3 2024.
A statement from a spokesperson for the Seidler Trust, which controls the Padres, called her complaint "entirely without merit." Last month, the Padres named John Seidler, the oldest of Peter's ...
The San Andreas Fault line crosses the Pajaro River at the Pajaro Gap just east of Chittenden Pass and Logan, California (near Aromas) on California State Route 129. [11] [12] The Salinian Block rests above the Pacific Plate which slips north along the San Andreas Fault. It is made up of granitic material, and marine sediments. [13]