** California interior chaparral and woodlands

In the 1870s, deriving from uses in the California mining industry, Lester Allan Pelton developed the high efficiency Pelton wheel impulse turbine, which utilized hydropower from the high head streams characteristic of the mountainous California interior.

The exteriors ( including the roof scene ), and some of the interior shots, of the Gattaca complex were filmed at Frank Lloyd Wright's 1960 Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, California.

The Mediterranean climate ecoregions of the Southern and Central Coast of California include the California chaparral and woodlands, California coastal sage and chaparral, California interior chaparral and woodlands, and California montane chaparral and woodlands.

* California interior chaparral and woodlands-( sub-ecoregion )

A notable example of an intact complex is the now-threatened Mission San Miguel Arcángel: its chapel retains the original interior murals created by Salinan Indians under the direction of Esteban Munras, a Spanish artist and last Spanish diplomat to California.

He spent part of his life in the northern California coastal town of Union ( now known as Arcata ), a settlement on Humboldt Bay that was established as a provisioning center for mining camps in the interior.

The oak woodlands and chapparal that fringe the valley have been categorised as the California interior chaparral and woodlands ecoregion.

Borders store interior, San Francisco, California

In March 1966, the filming finally moved to Hong Kong for three months, and then in June it traveled to Hollywood, California, to finish its interior scenes at the Fox Studios.

He kept especially close watch over the movements of John C. Frémont, an American military officer who had been let into California to conduct a survey of the interior.

While the Khitomer conference interior and exteriors were filmed at the Brandeis-Bardin Institute in California, the window from which Colonel West prepares to assassinate the president was a separate set built at Paramount.

In North America, it winters regularly along both coasts, ranging as far south as the Baja California Peninsula and the Gulf of California in northwestern Mexico ; it has been recorded as a vagrant in the interior Mexican state of Hidalgo.

** NA1202 California interior chaparral and woodlands

Two other restricted-range races occur in northern North America: A. a. gambeli in interior northwest Canada, and wintering on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, slightly larger than the nominate form, and Tule Goose, A. a. elgasi, in southwest Alaska, largest and longest-billed of all, wintering in California.

Category: Fauna of the California chaparral and woodlands

The California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion, of the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub Biome, has three sub-ecoregions with ecosystem — plant community subdivisions:

* California coastal sage and chaparral: In coastal Southern California and northwestern coastal Baja California, as well as all of the Channel Islands off California and Guadalupe Island ( Mexico ).

* California montane chaparral and woodlands: In southern and central coast adjacent and inland California regions, including covering some of the mountains of: the California Coast Ranges ; the Transverse Ranges ; and the western slopes of the northern Peninsular Ranges.

For the numerous individual plant and animal species found within the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion, see the Flora of California chaparral and woodlands ( index ), and the Fauna of the California chaparral and woodlands ( index ).

: Some of the indicator plants of the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion include:

Another phytogeography system uses two California chaparral and woodlands subdivisions: the cismontane chaparral ; and the transmontane ( desert ) chaparral.

Cismontane chaparral (" this side of the mountain ") refers to a chaparral ecosystem in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub Biome in California, growing on the western ( and coastal ) sides of large mountain range systems, such as: western slopes of the Sierra Nevada in the San Joaquin Valley foothills, western slopes of the Peninsular Ranges and California Coast Ranges, and south-southwest slopes of the Transverse Ranges in the Central Coast and Southern California regions.

Desert chaparral is a regional ecosystem subset of the Deserts and xeric shrublands Biome, with some plant species from the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion.

* California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion

** California montane chaparral and woodlands

Chad is a land-locked country in north central Africa measuring, roughly three times the size of California.

In 2011, one was spotted in the central coast of California.

Meanwhile, significantly wetter winters are present in northwest Mexico and the southwest United States including central and southern California, while both cooler and wetter than average winters in northeast Mexico and the southeast United States ( including the Tidewater region of Virginia ) occur during the El Niño phase of the oscillation.

They include such forest types as the mixed deciduous forests of the United States and their counterparts in China and Japan, the broadleaf evergreen rainforests of Japan, Chile and Tasmania, the sclerophyllous forests of Australia, central Chile, the Mediterranean and California, and the southern beech Nothofagus forests of Chile and New Zealand.

The Cadillac hearse is now privately owned in central California and is preserved, looking essentially identical to the way it did in the film.

Transient pods have been sighted from southern Alaska to central California.

LambdaMOO central geography was based on Pavel Curtis's California home.

Pacific Beach also serves as a central location for many of San Diego's universities, including University of California, San Diego, University of San Diego, San Diego State University, Point Loma Nazarene University, as well as others.

* San Bernardino and Riverside, California, the central cities of the area popularly known as the Inland Empire.

Concerns lingered that snow would make the central route to California impractical.

Judah undertook to survey and plan a way through what was one of the chief obstacles of a central route to California: a way over the high and rugged Sierra Nevada mountains.

Amtrak's California Zephyr, a daily passenger service from Emeryville, California ( San Francisco Bay Area ) to Chicago, uses the First Transcontinental Railroad from Sacramento to central Nevada.

During the LA Riots in 1992, when portions of south central Los Angeles erupted in chaos, overwhelming the Los Angeles Police Department's ability to contain the violence, the California Army National Guard and selected units of the California Air National Guard was mobilized to help restore order.

It occurs on the coastal slope of the Cascade Mountains from southern British Columbia to central California, overlapping with the range of C. t. pallidus.

* S. t. salicamans occurs west of the Sierra Nevada range during the summer and in south and central Baja California to the Mojave Desert and Colorado Desert in winter.

* Video of worm and beetle host in pet's water bowl ( see bottom of page ), submitted by R. Preston and collected by E. M. Preston from central California, USA.

This route went through central Nevada ( roughly where U. S. Route 50 goes today ) and was about 280 miles shorter than the ' standard ' Humboldt River California trail route.

* Giant Sequoia National Monument, in eastern central California