Sierra Nevada

world. Mexico is over 700 thousand square miles. With it being at least one fifth the size of the USA, Mexico has a population of 120 million people. Mexico can be partitioned into nine topographic locales: the Mexican Plateau, the Sierra Madre Oriental, the Sierra Madre Occidental, the Cordillera Neo-Volcánica, the Gulf Coastal Plain, the Pacific Coastal Lowlands, Baja California, the Southern Highlands, and the Yucatán Peninsula. AGRICULTURAL In spite of the fact that corn is recorded as…

Try not to float away! Space is pretty big, 435,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 KM or 46 billion light years away to be exact. Who knows what is out there. It also has zero gravity so you probably would not be stable at all. Who knows what can happen. Why does this matter? Because space should not privatized. It should not be privatized because multiple lives have been lost while on space missions, it should not be ran by undercover organization that no one knows and last space should not be used…

yellow warbler lives in the mangrove forest, dry scrubs, marshes, and forest, typically in the lowlands. They can also be found in open-canopy riparian woodlands. The yellow warbler is dependent on both meadow and non-meadow riparian habitats in the Sierra Nevada’s. The current conditions are approximately 242 acres, 118 montane riparian and 124 are valley foothill riparian. The indirect effects are: 1. No changes in acres of riparian habitat. 2. Possible reduction of deciduous canopy cover,…

In the Morgan article provides an interesting case study on how an archaeologist can use a GIS-based spatial analysis to reconstruct a prehistoric foraging radii to determine different foraging behaviors. The main idea that Morgan presents throughout the article is the concept of the foraging radius. The term foraging radius refers to the daily distance hunter gatherers travel from residential bases. Residential bases may include place where hunter gatherers sleep and places where their family…

The western mountains stretch across Southern Alaska to California; they are known as the Coastal Ranges. The Los Angeles Ranges are small groups of mountains in southern California. In Eastern California, you’ll find the Sierra Nevada mountain ranges. California also has volcanoes, though most of them haven’t erupted since prehistoric times. They are known as extinct volcanoes. Natural Resources: California has a lot of redwood trees, so it wouldn't be surprising that there…

is named after Christopher Columbus, even though he never set foot on Colombian soil. It was Alonso de Ojeda, one of Columbus' companions on his second voyage, who was the first European to set foot on the land in 1499. He briefly explored the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and was astonished by the wealth of the local Indians. Their gold and their stories about fabulous treasures inland gave birth to the myth of El Dorado, a mysterious kingdom abundant in gold. In its most extreme interpretation,…

population shrink in California during the gold rush? Lastly what happened to California as a result of the gold rush? Gold first appeared in the areas of Sierra Valley and Sacramento. On January 24, 1848 James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter originally from New Jersey, found flakes of gold in the American River at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. At the time James Marshall was working on a water-powered sawmill owned…

Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California is one the paintings of Albert Bierstadt. It display at Washington National Museum of American Art and Painted in 1868, with scenic canvas oil. Albert Bierstadt paintings are all based on the places he visited himself. Mount Washington from the Valley of Conway is a painting from John Frederick Kensett's. It’s painted in 1869 and he used canvas oil in his painting as well. This painting shows the America's hopes and ambitions. Both Albert Bierstadt…

Birth Announcements for This Week Today is Friday January 13th, 1893. In Long Valley, California, Clark Ashton Smith has been born to Timeus Smith of England, and his wife Fanny Smith of the Mid- west. Clark was born in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Clark Ashton Smith was born in the home of his grandparents, Hiram and Harriet Gaylord, in Long Valley, just off the Auburn-Folsom Road. He is the first born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The Life of Clark Ashton Smith As a child, Clark kept…

environment. The latitude is the first precursor for a desrert environment is the latitutde which Las Vegas resides is approximately equivalent to the deserts in northern Africa, but this is compounded by fact that las Vegas is leeward of the Sierra Nevada Mountainas and it's distance from the…