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The sandbar at the mouth of Tomales Bay is notoriously dangerous, with a long history of small-boat accidents. [7] Tomales Bay oysters. Oyster farming is a major industry on the bay. The two largest producers are Hog Island Oyster Company and Tomales Bay Oyster Company, both of which retail oysters to the public and have picnic grounds on the ...
A 38 mile long island that is from one mile to four and one half miles wide. Jointly owned by the Texas General Land Office and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, cooperatively managed as the Matagorda Island National Wildlife Refuge and State Natural Area, by the Texas Parks and Wildlife.
Sign for China Camp State Park The Chinese shrimp fishing village in 2010. By the 1880s, Chinese Americans had established a village at China Camp of approximately 500 people, many of whom were originally from Canton, China. They supported themselves by shrimp fishing in San Pablo Bay or working at local businesses.
The Yolla Bolly–Middle Eel Wilderness was created by the Wilderness Act of 1964, with an original land area of 170,195 acres (68,875 ha). It was enlarged by the California Wilderness Act of 1984 , and again by the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act of 2006, for a present-day total of 180,877 acres (73,198 ha).
Lairds Landing was the site of a wharf on the southwest shore of Tomales Bay. [33] It was named after ranchers, Charles and George Laird, who leased the site in 1858 to transport supplies and produce across the bay. [33] The location was settled by the Felix family around 1861, a family of Filipino and Miwok heritage. [34]
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham is offering the incoming Trump administration 1,402 acres the state purchased along the Texas-Mexico border to be used in a mass deportation operation. In a ...
Oakwood Valley – bordered by Marin City to the north and the Marin Headlands to the south, Oakwood Valley contains the largest untouched woodland of Coast Live Oak and California bay trees in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area [5] Olema Valley – 10 miles (16 km) of grassland and forest that stretch from Tomales Bay to Bolinas Lagoon
Tomales Bay near Marshall, California, looking south. Items portrayed in this file ... Maximum land aperture: 4.34 APEX (f/4.5) Metering mode: Pattern: Light source: