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The Kern River Valley has a thriving tourism and outdoor recreation industry centered around its lake, rivers, and mountains. Camping, hunting and fishing are popular activities, as are white water rafting, boating, and other water sports. During wintertime, snow sports are possible in the surrounding Sierra Nevada mountains.
The San Lorenzo River starts at its headwaters above Boulder Creek, it runs through the valley on its way to the city of Santa Cruz, where it then flows into the Monterey Bay and the Pacific Ocean and also supplies the city of Santa Cruz with its drinking water. Much of the river valley is rural and wooded and other areas have neighborhoods and ...
California golden beaver family on upper Los Gatos Creek Chinook salmon spawning on Los Gatos Creek in 1996 by U. S. Highway 17. Beaver dams on upper Los Gatos Creek. Note dead conifer(s) reflected in pool and in background are critical for cavity-nesting birds like wood ducks, American kestrels, mergansers, Pacific-slope flycatchers, tree swallows, owls, etc. Beaver and dam on lower Los Gatos ...
The Santa Clara River Valley is a rural, mainly agricultural valley in Ventura County, California that has been given the moniker Heritage Valley by the namesake tourism bureau. [1] The valley includes the communities of Santa Paula , Fillmore , Piru and the national historic landmark of Rancho Camulos .
"The Mighty Kern River" is a children's book in the "Indy, Oh Indy" series created by author Teresa Adamo and illustrator Jennifer Williams-Cordova. The book takes readers on a tour of the Kern River, from its mountain origins to the Buena Vista Lake Aquatic Recreation Area west of Bakersfield.
Lake Corcoran (also known as Lake Clyde, after Clyde Wahrhaftig, an American geologist [1]) was an ancient lake that covered the Central Valley of California. Central Valley map The lake existed in the valleys of the Sacramento River and the San Joaquin River , [ 2 ] at least as far north as the Sutter Buttes . [ 3 ]
The oldest rocks in California date back 1.8 billion years to the Proterozoic and are found in the San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, and Mojave Desert.The rocks of eastern California formed a shallow continental shelf, with massive deposition of limestone during the Paleozoic, and sediments from this time are common in the Sierra Nevada, Klamath Mountains and eastern Transverse ...
An 1873 map shows Tulare Lake prior to shrinkage from large-scale agriculture.. The San Joaquin Valley is the southern half of California's Central Valley. [4] It extends from the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta in the north to the Tehachapi Mountains in the south, and from the California coastal ranges (Diablo and Temblor) in the west to the Sierra Nevada in the east.