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Marysville Buttes (Sutter Buttes) Gas Field Geologic map Marysville Buttes (Sutter Buttes) Gas Field Geologic Cross Section with 3x vertical exaggeration. The Sutter Buttes (Maidu: Histum Yani or Esto Yamani, Wintun: Olonai-Tol, Nisenan: Estom Yanim) are a small circular complex of eroded volcanic lava domes which rise as buttes above the flat plains of the Sacramento Valley in Sutter County ...
About 60 miles north of Sacramento, the Sutter Buttes rise starkly from the floor of the Central Valley, the remnants of a volcano active more than 1.4 million years ago.
Sutter County also has the State Feather River Wildlife Area, consisting of the Nelson Slough, O'Connor Lakes, Abbott Lake, Shanghai Bend, and Morse Road Units in Sutter County. Also, a 1,795-acre (7.26 km 2) State Park in the Sutter Buttes. In addition, there are the state public trust lands of the Feather, Bear and Sacramento rivers as well ...
Recently, a petition was filed to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to change the name of the Sutter Buttes. Could ‘world’s smallest mountain range’ get new name? What Sutter Buttes could ...
Big Morongo Canyon, view from the Canyon Trail of Big Morongo Canyon Preserve Tree-lined drive that leads into Big Morongo Canyon Preserve. The Big Morongo Canyon Preserve is a 31,000-acres (130 km 2) native plants habitat and wildlife preserve located in the Little San Bernardino Mountains of the Transverse Ranges, in the transition zone between the higher Mojave Desert and lower elevation ...
The following trails provide access: Bear Creek Trail - This trail is approximately 11 miles (18 km) long, one trailhead for Lower Bear Creek located one mile (1.6 km) West along West Fork Road (which branches off of Highway 39 before mile marker 28) and the other trailhead for Upper Bear Creek located at the Valley of the Moon parking lot along Highway 39 at approximately mile post 29.65.
The Sutter Buttes loom in the background while two tundra swans swim in a flooded rice field in 2014. The volcanic ring’s most recent name revision occurred in 1949 when it was called the ...
Aug. 8—The Sutter Buttes mountain range offers one of the most iconic views across county lines with thousands of pictures taken year round by both tourists and residents alike. Facebook pages ...