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Somes Bar or Sommes Bar, is an unincorporated community in Siskiyou County, California, United States. Somes Bar is located on the Salmon River 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Forks of Salmon. Somes Bar has a post office with ZIP code 95568, which opened in 1875. [2] Somes Bar is named after George Somes, who found gold in the area in 1850. [3]
Silene marmorensis is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common names Marble Mountain catchfly, [1] Marble Mountain campion, and Somes Bar campion. It is endemic to the southern Klamath Mountains of northern California , where it grows in mountain woodlands and forests.
The Marble Mountains form part of the drainages of the Salmon, Scott, and Klamath rivers. Marble Mountain can be reached by trail access via State Route 96 between Hamburg and Somes Bar, State Route 3 via the Scott River Road between Scott Bar and Fort Jones or State Route 3 via Salmon River Road.
The Marble Mountain Wilderness is a 241,744-acre (978.30 km 2) [3] wilderness area located 60 miles (97 km) southwest of Yreka, California, in the United States. It is managed by the United States Forest Service and is within the Klamath National Forest in Siskiyou County . [ 1 ]
The Klamath Mountains are a rugged and lightly populated mountain range in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon in the western United States.As a mountain system within both the greater Pacific Coast Ranges and the California Coast Ranges, the Klamath Mountains have a varied geology, with substantial areas of serpentinite and marble, and a climate characterized by moderately cold ...
Klamath National Forest is a 1,737,774-acre (2,715 sq mi; 7,033 km 2) national forest, in the Klamath Mountains and Cascade Range, located in Siskiyou County in northern California, but with a tiny extension (1.5 percent of the forest) into southern Jackson County in Oregon. [1]
The Klamath River (Karuk: Ishkêesh, [9] Klamath: Koke, [10] Yurok: Hehlkeek 'We-Roy [11]) is a 257-mile (414 km) long river in southern Oregon and northern California. ...
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