Eastern Mojave Vegetation
Tom Schweich
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Eastern Mojave Vegetation
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Junction: Washington Highway 20
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Junction: E. Front Street and 1st Street
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Intersection: Race Street, to Mount Angeles Road and Hurricane Ridge Road
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Locations: Port Angeles.
| Port AngelesIntersection: Lincoln Street, US Hwy 101 turns south, continue straight for the Victoria BC — Port Angeles, WA Ferry.
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Intersection: 2nd Street,
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Intersection: E. Lauridsen Blvd.
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Junction: Washington Highway 117 “S Tumwater Truck Route”, also into downtown Port Angeles.
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Washington above … | Oregon below …
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 Astoria-Megler Bridge across Columbia River at Astoria, Oregon.
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| Port of Astoria
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Junction: US Highway 30, "W. Marine Drive," and "Columbia River Highway" | US Highway 101 circles around and climbs toward the Astoria-Megler Bridge without actually entering the town of Astoria.
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Junction: Oregon Highway 104, to Fort Stevens, and Fort Stevens State Park.
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| Seaside
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Junction: US Highway 26
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| Cannon Beach
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| Haystack RockHaystack Rock is a 235-foot (72-meter) tall monolith (or sea stack) on the Oregon coast in the northwestern United States, the third-tallest such "intertidal" meaning it can be reached by land, structure in the world. A popular tourist destination, the rock is adjacent to the beach and accessible by foot during low tide. Haystack Rock tide pools are home to many intertidal animals, including starfish, anemone, crabs, chitons, limpets, and sea slugs. The rock is also a refuge for many sea birds, including terns and puffins.Composed of basalt, Haystack Rock was formed by lava flows emanating from the Grand Ronde Mountains 10 to 17 million years ago.
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 Haystack Rock, off Cannon Beach, Oregon
View Point
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 Life Jacket Loaned Station, Nehalem Bay, Oregon
 Nehalem Bay, Oregon
Nehalem Bay State Park
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| Nehalem
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| Garibaldi
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| Tillamook
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| NewportJunction: US Highway 20
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| Yachats
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| Cape Perpetua Interpretive Center
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| Heceta Head Lighthouse
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 Heceta Head Lighthouse from view point.
Viewpoint for Heceta Head Lighthouse.
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Sea Lion Caves
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 Interpretive sign for Darlingtonia State Wayside
 Darlingtonia californica
Darlingtonia State Wayside
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| Florence
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Junction: Oregon Highway 126, east to Eugene, Redmond, and Prineville.
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 Sailboat on Woahink Lake
Jessie M. Honeyman State Park and Woahink Lake.
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| Reedsport
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| Umpqua Lighthouse State Park
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 Mouth of Umpqua River, Oregon
Viewpoint of mouth of Umpqua River.
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Junction: Newmark Street, to state parks. | The hill is pretty steep at this end of Newmark St. If I had a big rig, I would use a more gentle route, to be found either to the north or the south.
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| Coos Bay
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Junction: West Beaver Hill Road, back road to state parks.
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Junction: Seven Devils Road
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Locations:
Bandon.
| Bandon
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 Ellen Warring Learning Center at New River ACEC
 Information about New River ACEC
 Cranberry bogs along Croft Lake Road.
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New River is a dynamic, ever-changing system influenced by biological, climatological, geo-physical, and fluvial processes. The river and adjacent lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are in a special management category known as the New River Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC). The New River ACEC is managed to maintain biodiversity and quality habitats for native communities of plants, birds, animals, and fish. It also provides protection to cultural sites and affords educational, interpretive, and recreational opportunities to the visiting public in a manner consistent with the primary goals of protecting natural and cultural resources. BLM’s vision of the New River area includes protecting or enhancing habitats for a diversity of wildlife and plant species. Varied ecosystems such as meadows, forests, wetlands, coastal lakes, open sand dunes, and the New River estuary will continue to support this biodiversity. This includes a more stable meandering river with greater riparian vegetation. BLM also envisions a visiting public that will appreciate and enjoy the varied ecosystems protected at New River in a way that will not degrade the naturalness of the setting or the quality of the visitor experience. BLM will manage the ACEC primarily for non-motorized public use that is compatible with the semi-primitive natural setting evident throughout most of the area. In 1983, BLM designated 686 acres of federal lands along New River as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) to protect this unique natural area. In 1989, a land acquisition plan was completed, and over the next eight years, BLM acquired an additional 670 acres of private lands from willing sellers, bringing the current total land base of the ACEC to 1,356 acres. The primary resource values for the New River ACEC include:
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 Hughes House
 Plaque for Hughes House
 Cape Blanco Lighthouse
Junction: Cape Blanco Road, west to Cape Blanco Lighthouse, and Hughes House.
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| Port Orford
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| Gold Beach
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| Brookings
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Oregon above .. | California below …
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| Crescent City
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Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park
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Junction: Bald Hills Road, to Lady Bird Johnson Grove, and eventually to California Highway 169 at Martins Ferry.
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| Orick
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| Trinidad
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Junction: California Highway 299, east through Redding to Alturas and beyond.
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Locations: Arcata.
| Arcata
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Locations: Eureka.
| Eureka
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 Southport Landing Bed and Breakfast
This was one of the best bed and breakfast experiences I've had.
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Locations: Loleta.
| LoletaLoleta is a small town by the side of US Highway 101.
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Loleta.
The Loleta Cheese Factory is a interesting one-hour stop to watch the cheese being made.
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| AltonJunction: California Highway 36, east to Susanville.
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Locations: Scotia.
| ScotiaLumber town in northern California, owned by Pacific Lumber Company.
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 Heisler locomotive at the Scotia Museum.
Heisler geared locomotive at the Scotia Museum.
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 Helicopter takes water from the Eel River
CDF helicopter takes off from the Eel River with water to dump on a small fire.
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Locations:
Eel River.
The railroad bridge at Dyerville.
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| Dyerville (Site)The former site of Dyerville is on a bluff on the west side of the confluence of the North and South Forks of the Eel River. Across the river, to the south, is Founders Grove of Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
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Locations: Leggett.
| LeggettJunction: California Highway 1, a twisty road that follows the California coast all the way to San Juan Capistrano.
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Junction: Branscomb Road, west to CA Highway 1 at the Pacific Ocean.
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| Laytonville
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| Willits
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Junction: California Highway 20, west to Fort Bragg.
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Junction: California Highway 20
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| Calpella
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Junction: Redwood Highway to California Highway 128, west through the Anderson Valley, and Boonville, to the California coast just south of Mendocino.
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| Cloverdale
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Junction: California Highway 128, on the south end of Cloverdale.
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Locations: Healdsburg.
| HealdsburgLocation of a high-grade metamorphic block of Franciscan Formation, sampled by Wakabayashi et al. (2010).
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Locations: Mill Creek.
Junction: Mill Street, Westside Road, accessible from north only, use Healdsburg Avenue if coming from south.
| Along Mill Creek Road is a Wakabayashi et al. (2010) sample locality for a high-grade metamorphic block of Franciscan Formation.
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Locations: Terra Linda.
| Terra Linda
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Junction: U. S. Interstate 580, west across the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, to Oakland, and Interstate 5 in the San Joaquin Valley.
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Junction: Sir Francis Drake Blvd, west to Point Reyes.
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Locations: Mill Valley.
| Mill ValleyJunction: California Highway 1.
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Golden Gate Bridge.
Golden Gate Bridge
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Junction: California Highway 1, Park Presidio Blvd.
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Locations: San Francisco.
| San Francisco
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Junction: U. S. Interstate 80.
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Junction: US Interstate 280
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Locations:
San Bruno Mountain.
San Bruno Mountain.
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Junction: California Highway 92, west to Half Moon Bay, or east across the San Mateo Bridge to Hayward.
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Junction: Woodside Road, California Highway 84.
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Junction: Marsh Road, California Highway 84
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| San Jose
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Locations: Gilroy.
| GilroyJohn Gilroy, a Scotch sailor and the first permanent non-Spanish settler in California, was left ashore in Monterey in 1814 by the Hudson's Bay vessel Isaac Todd because he was sick with scurvy. He settled in the Santa Clara Valley and married into a Mexican land grant family, whose rancho eventually became called "Gilroy's" (Gudde, 1969, p. 120).
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Junction: California Highway 152, east through Pacheco Pass to US Interstate 5 and California Highway 99 in the San Joaquin Valley.
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DeLorme's Northern California Atlas and Gazetteer above | 37° North. DeLorme's Southern California Atlas and Gazetteer below.
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Junction: California Highway 25, south to Hollister, then past the east side of Pinnacles National Monument.
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Junction:
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Locations:
Fremont Peak.
San Juan Valley.
View southeast across the San Juan Valley to Fremont Peak.
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Junction: California Highway 156, southeast to San Juan Bautista, and east to Hollister.
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Junction: Crazy Horse Canyon Road, south through Crazy Horse Canyon to San Juan Grade Road and Old Stage Road.
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Junction: California Highway 68.
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Locations:
Salinas.
| Salinas
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Camphora.
Camphora
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Salinas Valley.
Junction: Front Street, north end of Soledad.
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Soledad.
| Soledad
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Junction: California Highway 146, at the south end of Soledad.
| California Highway 146 goes east to Pinnacles National Monument.
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Locations: Salinas River.
Salinas River
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Junction: Arroyo Seco Road
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Junction: El Camino Real, north of Greenfield.
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| Greenfield
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Junction: El Camino Real, south of Greenfield.
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Junction: Jolon Road, County Route G14. | Jolon Road roughly parallels US Highway 101 from near King City through the countryside and back to US Highway 101 near Bradley.
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King City.
| King City
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Junction: Monterey County Route G15, north through King City and the east side of the Salinas River.
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Junction: Lockwood-San Lucas Road, southwest through the hills to Lockwood.
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 Dead Monterey Pine with pumpkin.
 Whimsical Reindeer Pumpkin beside the highway.
Whimsical pumpkin in a dead Monterey Pine.
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Junction: Jolon Road, County Route G18
| Also known as "Jolon Road," makes a nice alternative to US Highway 101 if you want to get off the highway for a bit. Also, it is the way to Mission San Antonio de Padua.
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Exit 251: Bradley Road, south to Bradley.
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Bradley.
| BradleyBradley was a small town on the original route of US Highway 101.
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Southbound Rest Stop
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Northbound Rest Stop
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Exit 245: Bradley Road, nouth to Bradley.
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Locations: McKay.
| McKayName of a (former) Southern Pacific railroad station near Camp Roberts. Junction with a shortline railroad to the Stone Canyon Mine.
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Exit 241: Mission Street, north of San Miguel.
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San Miguel.
| San MiguelExit 239: 10th Street, for San Miguel.
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Exit 239A: Mission Street, south of San Miguel.
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Junction: Spring Street, exit south for main street of Paso Robles.
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Junction: California Highway 46, east to Lost Hills, then Wasco and California Highway 99.
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Locations: Paso Robles.
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Paso Robles.
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck the central California coast on December 22, 2003 at 11:15:56 am (PST). The event was located 11 km NE of San Simeon, and 39 km WNW of Paso Robles, where the brunt of the damage and casualties occurred. Two deaths occurred due to a building collapse in Paso Robles.
| The magnitude 6.5 temblor ruptured a hot springs aquifer and as much as 1,000 gallons per minute of sulfurous water is pouring out of the ground at the City Hall parking lot. The rupture was caused by the quake because it started the same day. It first appeared as a steaming spring about 4 inches high and 24 inches in diameter in the Paso Robles City Hall Parking lot (P. Rafferty, pers. comm.).
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Paso Robles.
The warm water has the rotten-egg smell typical of hot springs. State water officials said the sulfurous water does not pose a public health threat but may be harmful to the Salinas River ecosystem. In addition to sulfur, the water could contain other dissolved minerals that could be toxic to fish. The warm temperature of the water may also be harmful. The water was being channeled into the city's storm drain system, which eventually empties into the Salinas River.
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Paso Robles.
When I first saw the rejuvenated hot spring, Friday, 26 December 2003, a hole about 10 feet deep and 30 feet in diameter had been dug in the parking lot. Various approaches to pumping out the water were being tried. A pump was lowered part way into the pit, but several days later it had been removed. City officials have not figured out a way to stop the flow.
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Paso Robles.
The Acorn Building, shown here collapsed, was built in 1892 of unreinforced masonry. It had a third story clock tower that was a highlight of Paso Robles architecture. The two women who perished in this earthquake were killed by falling debris under the collapsing roof.
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Paso Robles.
As reported by David Sneed in the San Luis Obispo Tribune on Tuesday, 30 December 2003, the city is unsure how to plug hot springs flow.
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Junction: Spring Street, exit north for main street of Paso Robles.
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Junction: California Highway 46, west through the Santa Lucia Range to California Highway 1 near Cambria.
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Atascadero.
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Santa Margarita.
| Santa MargaritaJunction: California Highway 58, east to Bakersfield and then Barstow.
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| Cuesta Pass
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San Luis Obispo.
| San Luis Obispo
The City of San Luis Obispo serves as the commercial and cultural hub of California’s Central Coast, as well as being the county seat of San Luis Obispo County. One of California’s oldest communities, the city was was first incorporated in 1856. With a population of 44,000, the City is located eight miles from the Pacific Ocean and is midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles at the junction of Highway 101 and scenic Highway 1. A well-known state university and my alma mater, California Polytechnic State University, is located on the north edge of town.
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Junction: Los Osos Valley Road
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Locations: Pismo Beach.
| Pismo BeachJunction: California Highway 1.
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Junction: California Highway 166, east through the Cuyama Valley to the San Joaquin Valley.
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Junction: California Highway 154, for Los Olivos, and the back way to Santa Barbara over San Marcos Pass. Also access to California Highway 176 and Foxen Canyon is accessible via this exit.
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| Las CrucesJunction: California Highway 1, north through Lompoc to Pismo Beach and US Highway 101 again. Also gives access to Jalama Beach.
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Locations: Dos Pueblos Canyon.
Bridge over Dos Pueblos Canyon. The beach informally named Naples Beach is at the mouth of this canyon.
| Follmi et al. (2005) examined phosphogenesis and organic carbon preservation in the Monterey Formation to revisit the Monterey hypothesis that increased carbon deposition reduced atmospheric carbon and led to cooling of the Earth's climate. Follmi et al. (2005) reject the hypothesis because the rate of carbon deposition was quite modest, among other reasons.
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Locations: Naples.
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Junction: California Highway 154, San Marcos Pass Road.
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Gaviota Pass Rest Stop
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Locations: Santa Barbara.
| Santa Barbara
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Junction: California Highway 33, north through Ojai and many other points to Coalinga.
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Locations: Ventura.
| Ventura
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Locations: Santa Clara River.
Cross Santa Clara River. | Warrick and Barnard (2012) studied sedimentation at the mouths of the San Lorenzo and Santa Clara Rivers after substantial flood events. They found that the amount of sand delivered to the littoral cells was substantially different between the two rivers.
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Locations: Oxnard.
| OxnardJunction: California Highway 1.
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Junction: Interstate 5, Interstate 10
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Date and time this article was prepared: 1/17/2022 3:17:16 PM |
