One anecdote describes Thomas Hunt Morgan banning the Friden calculator from his department at Caltech, saying " Well, I am like a guy who is prospecting for gold along the banks of the Sacramento River in 1849.

Young's party continued on into California trapping and trading from Sacramento to Los Angeles, returning to Taos in April, 1830 after trapping along the Colorado River.

* Sacramento – San Joaquin River Delta ( California )

* Sacramento River ( California )

Judah was chief engineer for the newly formed Sacramento Valley Railroad in 1852, the first railroad built west of the Mississippi River.

The slope elevation decreases northward toward the American River and westward toward the Sacramento River.

All surface drainage flows toward the Sacramento River.

Groundwater in the vicinity flows south-southwest toward the Sacramento Delta ; however, after peak rainfall, because of a swollen Sacramento River, the groundwater flow can actually reverse and flow away from the river.

Therefore in 1863, the tribes from the area surrounding the middle Sacramento and Feather rivers, the Konkow group, were removed and marched forcibly to the Round Valley Indian Reservation near the Eel River.

It was not long after the city had reached a relatively large population of about 10, 000, then the Great Flood of 1862 swept away much of it ( and almost everything else along the Sacramento River ) and put the rest under water.

Repeated floods and increased demand for Sacramento River water saw a plethora of massive changes to the environment beginning in the 20th century.

Alexander of the Army Corps of Engineers had written in his surveys of the Central Valley's hydrology and irrigation systems of a great network of pumps and canals that would take water from the water-rich Sacramento River basin into drought-prone South and Central California, especially the San Joaquin Valley.

The Sacramento River is often said to receive " two-thirds to three-quarters of northern California's precipitation though it has only one-third to one-quarter of the land.

As the construction of dams, power plants and canals required immense labor, which was rare in the middle of the Depression, the government authorized Sacramento River dams and other structures as public works projects beginning in 1935.

A third major canal, the Sacramento River Deep Water Ship Channel, exists not for irrigation purposes but rather to facilitate navigation of large oceangoing ships from the Delta to the city of Sacramento.

The Aqueduct's waters, which functionally extend the Sacramento River southwards, then run on to serve the enormous populace of California's south, supplying the needs of some 22 million people.

A successful one was the Trinity River diversion, which sent over 90 percent of the flow of that river into the Sacramento through a tunnel under the Klamath Mountains.

Others failed to take root – one of the most notorious, the Klamath Diversion, proposed to send the entire flow of the Klamath River into the Sacramento Valley through a complex system of reservoirs, canals, flumes and tunnels.

Similarly, the Dos Rios Dam project would have diverted almost the entire flow of the Eel River to the Sacramento.

The Sacramento River and its drainage basin were originally abundant in multiple avian and aquatic species, but modern-day development has thinned populations of many species, especially riverine.

It is surmised that between four and five million years ago, the Sacramento and Snake-Columbia River systems were somehow connected by a series of now-dry wetlands and river channels.

In 1982 NOAO was formed to consolidate the management of three optical observatories — Kitt Peak ; the National Solar Observatory facilities at Kitt Peak and Sacramento Peak, New Mexico ; and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.

* Sacramento Mountains ( New Mexico )

* Apache Point Observatory, an observatory in the Sacramento Mountains in Sunspot, New Mexico, U. S.

A mountain resort town, Ruidoso lies in the rugged Sierra Blanca mountain range of southcentral New Mexico, where it merges with the Sacramento Mountains to the south.

The climate of Cloudcroft and the Sacramento Mountains is cooler and receives more precipitation and snowfall than the surrounding areas in West Texas and southern New Mexico.

Early maps of the area include this notation and La Luz Canyon may have served as an early pass over the Sacramento Mountains connecting with the Penasco river which eventually flows into the Pecos River near present day Artesia, New Mexico.

Charles B. Eddy and partners constructed a branch line from El Paso northward to exploit the timber resources of the Sacramento Mountains and coal deposits further north near present day White Oaks, New Mexico.

Timberon is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Otero County, New Mexico and is within the Sacramento Mountains at the southern edge of the Lincoln National Forest, directly north of the Fort Bliss Military Reservation.

One of Thiebaud's successful students from Sacramento City College was renowned artist, Fritz Scholder ( 1937 – 2005 ) who went on to become a major influence in the direction of American Indian art through his instruction at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico ( 1964 – 1969 ).

Ten are members of the Pacific-12 Conference ( Arizona, Arizona State, California, Colorado, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State ), seven are members of the Big West Conference ( Cal Poly-SLO, Cal State Northridge, Long Beach State, Pacific, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara ), five are members of the Mountain West Conference ( Air Force, Fresno State, New Mexico, San Diego State, UNLV ), five are members of the West Coast Conference ( BYU, Loyola Marymount, Pepperdine, San Diego, Saint Mary's ), three are members of the Western Athletic Conference ( Denver, San Jose State, Seattle ), two are members of the Big Sky Conference ( Northern Colorado, Sacramento State ), two are members of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference ( Alaska-Anchorage, Seattle Pacific ), one is a member of the Big 12 Conference ( Oklahoma ), one is a member of the California Collegiate Athletic Association ( UC San Diego ), and one is a member of the Great West Conference ( Houston Baptist ).

It extended from New Orleans through Texas to El Paso, across New Mexico and through Tucson, to Los Angeles, throughout most of California, including San Francisco and Sacramento.

In the Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico, Mexican Spotted Owls in mixed-conifer forests had higher average annual reproductive output ( 0. 38 female fledged / territory ) than those in ponderosa pine and Colorado pinyon-alligator juniper ( Pinus edulis-Juniperus deppeana ) woodlands ( 0. 13 female fledged / territory ).

For instance, Mexican Spotted Owl home ranges in the Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico dominated by mixed-conifer forests were significantly ( P < 0. 04 ) smaller than those dominated by ponderosa pine forests and pinyon-juniper woodland.

Mexican Spotted Owl densities averaged 0. 275 owls / km² in mixed-conifer forests, 0. 08 owls / km² in pine forests, and 0. 022 owls / km² in pinyon-juniper woodlands of the Sacramento Mountains New Mexico.

One at Sacramento Peak near Sunspot in New Mexico, and the other at Kitt Peak in Arizona.

The Sacramento Peak facilities are located in Sunspot, New Mexico.

The northwestern extension, bounded by a dramatic escarpment known as " The Rim ", extends much further into New Mexico, to near the Sacramento Mountains.

The Apache Point Observatory ( APO ) is an astronomical observatory located in the Sacramento Mountains in Sunspot, New Mexico ( USA ) approximately south of Cloudcroft.

Dr. Nelson performed astronomical research at the Sacramento Peak Solar Observatory, Sunspot, New Mexico ; the Astronomical Institute at Utrecht ( Utrecht, Netherlands ) and the University of Göttingen Observatory, ( Göttingen, West Germany ), and at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics ( Boulder, Colorado ).

* National Solar Observatory ( NSO )-AURA operates NSO conducting research at Sacramento Peak in New Mexico and at Kitt Peak in Arizona.

He operates the W & B Observatory ( IAU code 709 ) in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, in the Sacramento Mountains, at an altitude of 2500 m ( 8300 ft ).

Sunspot is an unincorporated community in the Sacramento Mountains in Otero County, New Mexico, United States.

" " José " went live on six FM and AM stations in Sacramento, Stockton, and Modesto, California, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Denver, Colorado.

* John Augustus Sutter, Jr. ( 1826-1897 ), his son, a U. S. Consul to Acapulco, Mexico and the founder and planner of the City of Sacramento, California