Local geography invites fishing, mountain climbing, and hiking as well as opportunities to experience some of California's wildest land.

Because of California's large size and diverse geography, the state can be subdivided in other ways as well.

Northern California's diverse geography ranges from the sandy beaches of the Pacific coast to the rugged, snow-capped Sierra Nevada mountains in the east.

Southern California's weather allowed outdoor filming for most of the year and offered varied geography and settings which could stand in for far flung filming locations around the world.

Attracted by Southern California's mild, dry climate, varied geography for location shooting and isolation from Edison's legal representatives on the east coast, Selig set up his studio in Edendale in 1909 with director Francis Boggs, who began the facility in a rented bungalow and quickly expanded, designing the studio's front entrance after Mission San Gabriel.

Though the Atlas placed Star City on California's Pacific Coast, north of San Francisco, the layout used for the city map resembled the geography of metropolitan Chicago, but reversed, so that it would be on the Michigan side of Lake Michigan: So the neighborhood of " East Gary " was approximately where the real Gary, Indiana, is, but it was on the Pacific Ocean instead of Lake Michigan.

* 2010 – California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state's voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger.

* 1904 – The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.

The most popular single earthquake in fiction is the hypothetical " Big One " expected of California's San Andreas Fault someday, as depicted in the novels Richter 10 ( 1996 ) and Goodbye California ( 1977 ) among other works.

The Information Sciences Institute ( ISI ) is a research and development unit of the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering which focuses on computer and communications technology and information processing.

An ancient glacial lake that formed in the Great Lakes region of North America, Lake Agassiz, is named after him, as are Mount Agassiz in California's Palisades, Mount Agassiz, in the Uinta Mountains, Agassiz Peak in Arizona and in his native Switzerland, the Agassizhorn in the Bernese Alps.

Nevada's reading is the third highest temperature recorded in the U. S. just behind Arizona's reading and California's reading.

For example, California's insured population of 20 million is the most competitive in the nation and 44 % of that market is dominated by two insurance companies, Anthem and Kaiser Permanente.

The Supreme Court of California's explanation of this principle is that

Limbaugh's unprecedented success is illustrated by Fresno, California's then number-one radio station, KMJ " news-talk radio ," a typical example of how the talk radio format was changed nation wide.

The University of California's campuses boast large numbers of distinguished faculty in almost every field and it is widely regarded as one of the top public university systems in the world.

Hoping both to expand and raise funds, the College of California's trustees formed the College Homestead Association and purchased 160 acres ( 650, 000 m² ) of land in what is now Berkeley in 1866.

For example, in the United States, California's Oakland ( KOAK ), Monterey ( KMRY ) and Santa Ana ( KSNA ) airports routinely grant temporary IFR clearance when a low coastal overcast forces instrument approaches, while the rest of the state is still under visual flight rules.

In Mazda's RX-8 with the Renesis engine, fuel economy is now within normal limits while passing California State emissions requirements, including California's Low Emissions Vehicle ( LEV ) standards.

* California's sodomy law is repealed.

The park is also Southern California's quarantine center for zoo animals imported into the United States through San Diego.

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.

Located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada in California's Owens Valley between the towns of Lone Pine to the south and Independence to the north, it is approximately northeast of Los Angeles.

The centre is located in Moffett Field in California's Silicon Valley.

California black oak comprises a total volume of 29 % of California's hardwood timber resources, and is the major hardwood sawn into lumber there.

It is preserved — restored in California's Fort Ross State Historic Park 50 miles north of San Francisco.

The 21 Alta California missions were established along the northernmost section of California's El Camino Real ( Spanish for " The Royal Highway ", though often referred to as " The King's Highway "), christened in honor of King Charles III ), much of which is now U. S. Route 101 and several Mission Streets.

In fact, around one-eighth of California's population is from Okie heritage.

It was the thirteenth of California's Spanish missions, and is the namesake of the city of Soledad.

All that was left of the Mission was a single pear tree from the old Mission's orchard, it is for this reason that San Rafael is known as the " most obliterated of California's missions.

The idea of a fast mail route to the Pacific coast was prompted largely by California's new found prominence and its rapidly growing population.

Though it has been largely eclipsed by California's production, the area still produces significant quantities of tomatoes, green beans, corn, soy beans — Queen Anne's County is the largest producer of soy beans in Maryland — and other popular vegetables.

On May 19, 2009 news reports indicate that the Federal EPA will largely adopt California's standards on greenhouse gas emissions.

The School is located on 2, 860 acres ( 12 km² ) of largely undeveloped ranchland characteristic of central California's coastal hill country.

A report issued by California's Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance team in September of 2012 found the institution to be in a " perilous financial position " caused largely by " poor decisions and a lack of accountability.

She has been re-elected consistently with at least 70 % of the popular vote in the California's 35th congressional district after significant parts of the pre-1990 29th California Congressional District were folded into the newly defined 35th California Congressional District when California gained seven additional seats in the House following the 1990 United States Census.

Having done that it is now the home of the El Centro metropolitan area and also an economic center of California's, government defined, " South Border ".

Whitman supported California's Proposition 8 in 2008, which reversed In re Marriage Cases and defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman in the state, but she is for civil unions and supports California's domestic partnership laws.

In his CDC work, Carvey has the close-in support and advice of one of California's shrewdest political strategists: former Democratic National Committeeman Paul Ziffren, who backed him over a Northland candidate espoused by Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk.

The College of California's College Homestead Association planned to raise funds for the new campus by selling off parcels of land adjacent to it.

These parks include Paramount's Great America, now acquired by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company and renamed to California's Great America, Canada's Wonderland, Carowinds, Kings Dominion, And Kings Island.

Led by Dead Kennedys, a U. S. anarcho-punk scene developed around such bands as Austin's MDC and Southern California's Another Destructive System.

In the United States, varieties of cowpunk played by bands such as Nashville's Jason & the Scorchers, Arizona's Meat Puppets, and Southern California's Social Distortion had a similar effect.

A 2012 book by Marcus Ruiz Evans entitled California's Next Century details an overhauling of California's statehood via a plan to embrace its unique global role and form itself as an independent republic, uniquely poised to become the Switzerland of the 21st century, a global nerve center of international diplomacy, technology and finance.

* October 6 – Southern California's Pacific Ocean Park closes down, known as the Disneyland by the sea.

She was named 1954 Alumna of the Year by the University of California's alumni association.

There was a period in the mid 1960's when U. S. Forest Service policy in California's National Forests for the California black oak was systematic extermination by girdling the trees.

In February 2008, a Facebook group formed by law professor John Palfrey encouraged him to run for Congress from California's 12th congressional district, the seat vacated by the death of U. S. Representative Tom Lantos.

In November and December 1818, several of the missions were attacked by Hipólito Bouchard, " California's only pirate.

The highway was built by the Mexican government to improve Baja California's economy and increase tourism.

California's acquisition by the United States under the terms of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo following the defeat of Mexico in the Mexican – American War caused further American westward expansion into Mexico intensified with the California Gold Rush, beginning in 1849.

Tribes living in the mountains of the north and east relied heavily on salmon and game hunting, and used California's volcanic legacy by collecting and shaping obsidian for themselves and for trade.

California's executive branch is headed by the Governor.