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The Empire and Cienega ranches, along with portions of the adjacent Rose Tree and Vera Earl ranches, were put under public ownership and managed by Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the principles of multiple-use and ecosystem management for future generations to use and enjoy. The BLM has formed a partnership with the nonprofit Empire ...
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho La Ciénega ó Paso de la Tijera was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] and the ...
The Canelo Hills Cienega Reserve, is a nature preserve southeast of Sonoita, Arizona on the east side of the Canelo Hills. The area's 260 acres (110 ha) are a mix of rare cienega wetland and black oak and Arizona fescue fields. [ 1 ]
A restored cienega in Balmorhea State Park. A ciénega (also spelled ciénaga) is a wetland system unique to the American Southwest and Northern Mexico.Ciénagas are alkaline, freshwater, spongy, wet meadows with shallow-gradient, permanently saturated soils in otherwise arid landscapes that often occupy nearly the entire widths of valley bottoms.
The southern end of the Canelo Hills contain evidence for a volcanic caldera, the Parker Canyon Caldera. This caldera is mapped as a kidney shaped feature stretching from just north of Canelo Pass some 15 miles (24 km) to the southeast into the Huachucas and underlying the eastern portion of the San Rafael Valley. [ 2 ]
Rancho Las Ciénegas was a 4,439-acre (17.96 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California given in 1823 to Francisco Avila by Governor Luis Antonio Argüello. [1] " La Ciénega" is derived from the Spanish word ciénega , which means swamp or marshland and refers to the natural springs and wetlands in the area between ...
Baldwin Lake (San Bernardino County, California) Ballona Wetlands; Batiquitos Lagoon; Bear Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve; Big Morongo Canyon Preserve; Bird Rock State Marine Conservation Area and Blue Cavern State Marine Conservation Areas; Blue Ridge Berryessa Natural Area; Bluff Lake (San Bernardino County, California) Boggs Lake ...
Rancho Cienega del Gabilán was a 48,781-acre (197.41 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County and San Benito County, California. It was granted in 1843 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Antonio Chaves (Chávez). [1] The name means "spring of the hawk ranch". The grant was located in the Gabilan Range east of present-day Salinas ...