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Arved Fuchs (born 26 April 1953) is a German polar explorer and writer. Fuchs in 2006 Sailing boat Dagmar Aaen. On 30 December 1989, Fuchs and Reinhold Messner were the first to reach the South Pole with neither animal nor motorised help, using skis and a parasail. That made him the first person to reach both poles by foot within one year.
As required by the Land Act of 1851, in 1852 Sutter filed a claim with the Public Land Commission for the eleven square leagues granted by Alvarado in 1841. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In 1853 Sutter amended his petition, and claimed an additional 22-square-league "Rancho New Helvetia Sobrante", granted to him and his son, John A. Sutter Jr., by Governor ...
The trip by wagon was a four- to six-month ordeal across over 2,000 miles (3,200 km) of land from a Missouri River town to California or across the deserts of Arizona or Nevada to California. Those going by wagon train could not leave until the snow melted and the trails were dry and enough grass had started to feed their livestock—usually ...
How much rain did the storm bring to Southern California? Here are the latest 3-day rainfall totals for the Southern California region, according to the weather service. Rocky Butte, San Luis ...
Today, his living family members own about 370,000 acres of land in northern California and western Pennsylvania. Art Wager / Getty Images/iStockphoto. Cullen Heirs. Land area: 388,000 acres.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has set in motion the largest land return in California history, declaring his support for the return of ancestral lands to the Shasta Indian Nation that were seized a century ...
Los Nietos railway station, pictured on a 1912 Los Angeles map. Rancho Los Nietos was one of the first, and the largest, Spanish land concession in Alta California.Located in present-day Los Angeles County and Orange County, California.
But between logging and fires, 95% of California's redwoods have been destroyed. Over the past decade, the Yurok have been helping restore the land. Another forgotten jewel of the ecosystem is salmon.