Sierra Nevada

recorded population of 30,730 people and covered an area of approximately 9.0 square miles. It has a population density of 3,414 people per square mile (City-Data, 2011). In comparison, zip code 95945 is located in Grass Valley, which is part of the Nevada County. The city of Grass Valley is historically known as a gold mining town that is geographically located one hour north of Sacramento. As of 2011, zip code 95945 had a recorded population of 24,162 with a total of 64.2 square miles.…

Hidalgo allowed America to expand and occupy western territories. One of the more prominent territories acquired from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was California. Flakes of gold were found floating along the American River at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. After news got out, people from across the sea traveled to America looking for wealth in the mines of California. The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the California Gold Rush that will…

and the western United States (Arno and Hoff 1989). According to Arno and Hoff, the distribution of whitebark pine is split between two broad sections. One section extends from the British Columbia Coast Ranges to the Cascade Range, and to the Sierra Nevada, while…

For example, the Great Basin, where vertical forces outweigh the horizontal forces, is extending -- tearing itself apart fast enough to push the Sierra Nevada mountains toward the Pacific Ocean about a half inch every year. In contrast, in the coastal ranges of California, where the gravitational potential energy is low, horizontal forces are compressing the crust. It struck Jones that a sudden drop…

The Gold Rush was one of the biggest events that have happened in the United States of America prior to 1848. It was one of the biggest economic sources of California and the Californian people. 1849 Gold was discovered in the Sierra Nevada 's on the California side. Many people around the world heard about it and traveled all over the place from China, Japan and even down in South America. It was a Gold frenzy that had set in from Novice miners to big industry started a gold rush to California…

4. The illustrations should help readers anticipate the unfolding of a story’s action and its climax. Book 1: With each page there is a new adventure for the reader. Brain Fola, has written and illustrated a book that is full of energy and excitement. If there was a climax, the greatest adventure to unfold during the story plot, it would have to be Dale Creek Bridge crossing. The text emphasizes the narrowness of the bridge, the heaviness of the train, and the rickety sounds from the bridge.…

The Transcontinental Railroad The Transcontinental Railroad was a legendary Civil Engineering feat that created an entirely new way of settlement and trade in the West that had hardly been imagined. The Railroad changed the life of the travelers and settlers in America. A trip from the East Coast to the West Coast that used to take six months then took a mere seven days. Without the intelligence of great men like Theodore Judah and Grenville Dodge, who were Chief Engineers of the Railroad, the…

What would it take to ride the Pacific Crest Trail? Most people would begin by asking: why? There are many answers to this question and they vary greatly from person to person, but for most, it is for the challenge. To say that it can be done, much like Don and June Mulford, did in 1959. Casting aside all criticism and concern from friends and park rangers alike, they set off with their pack train into the wilderness, and a year later emerged victorious on the other side. Such expeditions take…

The Owens Valley is located in eastern California along the Sierra Nevada Mountain range. There was a small town in Owens Valley called Manzanar. Manzanar is Spanish for “apple orchard” and it was a very popular town. Manzanar had innovative, mutually owned irrigation system and they brought 20,000 apples trees from…

Patrick Johnson Engr 597 Tectonics Dr. Gifford 10/14/2016 Formation of the Rocky Mountains Abstract • How did they form? • Sevier orogeny • Laramide orogeny • prevailing theory (flat slab subduction) 1. Very low angle subducting slab 2. rubbing against underside of North American plate 3. first proposed by william dickinson (1978) 4. another good paper Peter Bird (1988) • Alternative theories 1. Craig jones - suction model 2. (maxson, Tikoff 1996) - Hit and run collision model "I 'll come…