Sierra Nevada

experience, and his writings discuss the minuteness and ability of nature to change in a fleeting moment. His style of writing is very fluid and leaves room for Thoreau’s contemplation as well as the contemplation of the reader. Among the Sierra Nevada, California is an oil painting, and it is a prime example of a romantic landscape. Bierstadt was a successful artist creating at the end of the of the Romantic period. By referencing this painting, I will be able to analyze and interpret the…

Introduction The purpose of this manuscript is to have a conversation about California, its droughts, and how agriculture is affected and how it can be amended to survive said droughts. I wish to do so by showing what are essentially what kinds of droughts California has face before. I also want to try and show how some other places have attempted to help themselves through their own methods by going through what they did for those and what they attempted to do in case of other future droughts.…

Gold Rush: The California Gold Rush was the biggest mass relocation in American history since it realized 300,000 individuals to California. It began on January 24, 1848, when James W. Marshall discovered gold on his real estate parcel at Sutter's Mill in Coloma. The news of gold rapidly spread around. Individuals from Oregon, Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) and Latin America were the first to hear the breaking news, so they were the first to touch base so as to test their fortunes in California…

The Truth about the West I believe that the West was a myth; it was actually extremely hard work and was not a great lifestyle to be a cowboy, miner, or farmer. Their jobs were very dangerous, and did not get paid very much. The money they did earn would go to new clothing, food, or bathing. Often miners came from China because the U.S. citizens would not want to leave their family and friends. People who entered these jobs were very hard workers who commonly had to support their families.…

I moved to Yuba City, California approximately twelve years ago and have lived there ever since. I chose to analyze the climate trends of Yuba City because, even though I may move away soon after graduating college, it is where my parents will continue to live and I would like to have an idea of future climate changes in their city. Yuba City is a fairly small town in Sutter County with a population of 65,416 people (United States Census, 2013). It is located on the Feather River 45 miles north…

Background The Nelson's Antelope Squirrel (Ammosperophilus nelsoni), or NAS, is found in the San Joaquin Valley of North America between the southern part of the Sierra Nevada and the Tehachapi Mountains (Hawbecker 1953). NAS has been found to prefer habitat containing Desert Saltbush (Atriplex polycarpa) for it's burrows (Hawbecker 1953). Red-Stemmed Filaree (Erodium cicutarium) and Red Brome (Bromus rubens) are staples of NAS' diet along with insects such as the June Beetle (Phyllophaga…

going in the direction of Nevada they were faced with the Great Salt Lake Dessert. There the Donner Party already losing two people from the trip go through a dessert that has no water, animals, or food that they could use. Leaving wagons, supplies, and oxen some families are forced to walk. James Reed is soon banished from the group for killing a member of the party over a scuffle and soon leaves without his family who stays. Once the party passes the dessert into Nevada instead of being ahead…

According to the online article, “An answer to UNR parking woes in sight,” Ryan Klekas, an MBA graduate of UNR, created a way to help college students suffering from extreme parking difficulties (Nevada Sagebrush). Klekas created an APP by the name of “Instally,” and is the CEO and Co founder of this APP. This APP allows students to connect with local people that own housing and parking spaces. The students then get in contact with the owner of…

altitudes. In between, there were several organized indigenous groups called chiefdoms, that were frequently at war with each other and supposedly practiced cannibalism. The Tairona, one of the two more advanced civilized groups, inhabited the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and had complex societies, with chiefdom hierarchies, stone road systems, advanced agricultural (composed of irrigational and terrace systems), well established trading systems, and artifact production. The Muisca, the other…

The Tahoe: A Visual Experience at the Nevada Museums of Art, celebrates and showcases two centuries of cultural and creative production of art and art history of Lake Tahoe, Donner Pass and surrounding Sierras. This exhibition is for the first time focusing on our local region instead of in conjunction with other national areas like Yosemite’s, Yellow Stone or the Grand Canyon. The goal of the exhibition is to allow future generations to celebrate and examine these areas, and their contribution…