The western terrestrial garter snake ( Thamnophis elegans ) in California is largely aquatic and depends heavily on two species of frog that are diminishing in numbers, the Yosemite toad ( Bufo canorus ) and the mountain yellow-legged frog ( Rana muscosa ), putting the snake's future at risk.

* Dardanelles Cone, a mountain peak in the Carson-Iceberg Wilderness of the Stanislaus National Forest in the Sierra Nevada, California

On land, the Donner Party found itself stranded by snow in a high mountain pass in California without adequate supplies during the Mexican-American War, leading to several instances of cannibalism.

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.

Transmontane chaparral or Desert chaparral is found on the eastern slopes of major mountain range systems on the western sides of the deserts of California.

The mountain systems include: the southeastern Transverse Ranges ( the San Bernardino and San Gabriel Mountains ) in the Mojave Desert north and northeast of the Los Angeles basin and Inland Empire ; and the northern Peninsular Ranges ( San Jacinto, Santa Rosa, and Laguna Mountains ), which separate the Colorado Desert ( western Sonoran Desert ) from lower coastal Southern California.

" Peckinpah Meadow and Peckinpah Creek, where the family ran a lumber mill on a mountain in the High Sierra north of Coarsegold, California, have been officially named on U. S. geographical maps.

Because Boundary Peak ( Nevada ) | Boundary Peak, Nevada is partially in California, and is actually a sub-peak of Montgomery Peak, the shorter Wheeler Peak can be considered the tallest mountain in Nevada.

The highest point in San Francisco, California, is called Mount Davidson, notwithstanding its height of, which makes it ten feet short of the minimum for a mountain by American designations.

* Mount Sill, a California mountain

The Western North America bioregion includes the Temperate coniferous forests of the coastal and mountain regions of southern Alaska, western Canada, and the western United States from the Pacific Coast and Northern California to the Rocky Mountains, as well as the cold-winter intermountain deserts and xeric shrublands and temperate grasslands and shrublands of the western United States.

This concept of meaning differs from the concept of signification: Though an expression is signifying, for instance " The gold mountain is in California ", it may nevertheless be discursively meaningless and therefore have no existence within a certain discourse.

* Santiago Peak, a mountain in Orange County, California

" According to this source, the name refers to the picturesque mountain peaks called the Needles, located near the Colorado River a few miles south of the city of Needles, California.

The Klamath Mountains are a mountain range in northwest California and southwest Oregon, the highest peak being Thompson Peak ( 2, 744 m / 9, 002 ft ) in Trinity County, California.

Mount San Gorgonio, the highest mountain in Southern California

It is possible to surf in the Pacific Ocean and ski on a mountain during the same winter day in Southern California.

* At the south end of Baja California Sur, the Sierra de la Laguna forms an isolated mountain range rising to 2406 m.

In the United States they are common in areas with rocky soils, such as New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania and are a notable characteristic of the bluegrass region of central Kentucky, where they are usually referred to as rock fences, and the Napa Valley in north central California.

In 1968, California band The Turtles released a concept album, The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands, with the band playing in different styles from psychedelic to surf music to bluegrass.

Columbia Records ( The Byrds ' record label ) signed Clark as a solo artist and, in 1967, he released his first solo LP, Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers, a mixture of pop, country rock and baroque-psychedelic tracks — Chris Hillman had worked with the Gosdin Brothers in the mid 1960s when he and they were members of the Southern California bluegrass band called The Hillmen.

When the band broke up in late 1963 Hillman received an invitation to join the Golden State Boys, regarded as the top bluegrass band in southern California and featuring future country star Vern Gosdin, his brother Rex and banjoist Don Parmley ( later of the Bluegrass Cardinals ).

Rice was born in Danville, Virginia but grew up in Los Angeles, California, where he was introduced to bluegrass by his father, a semi-professional musician named Herb Rice.

The Loar A5 was found by Tut Taylor and sold to Southern California bluegrass musician in 1974.

She moved to Los Angeles, California during the 1980s where she learned bluegrass and cajun music at Hollywood's Westlake College of Music.

They are considered to be one of the pioneers of the burgeoning southern California folk rock, country rock and so-called progressive bluegrass genres, and are known to have directly or indirectly influenced artists such as The Eagles, The Byrds, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Dan Fogelberg, Linda Ronstadt, Iain Matthews, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Elton John, Fairport Convention, The New Grass Revival, J. D. Crowe and the New South, Ricky Skaggs, The Seldom Scene, The Dixie Bee-Liners, and Joe Bethancourt.

The three members of Nickel Creek met in Carlsbad, California at That Pizza Place in 1989, listening to weekly bluegrass shows with their parents.

The band performed at many California bluegrass festivals, and as a result Chris had to be home-schooled.

* Beach hockey, a variation of street hockey, is a common sight on Southern California beaches.

In California, they are often found at street vendors, and a regional variation is to serve them with cabbage and coleslaw dressing on top.

* A transgender variation of the gay panic defense was also used in 2004 – 2005 in California by the three defendants in the Gwen Araujo homicide case, who claimed that they were enraged by the discovery that Araujo, a transgender teenager with whom they had engaged in sex, had male genitalia.

Tokyo Disney Resort has three main entertainment sections: Tokyo Disneyland, Tokyo DisneySea and Ikspiari, which is a variation of the Downtown Disney shopping, dining and entertainment area found at the Disney resorts in California and Florida.

In California, he became celebrated for rigorously geometric but airy structures that symbolized a West Coast variation on the mid-century modern residence.

A variation of the omega wrap, such as that used by Echo Science Corporation of Mountain View, California in its instrumentation and high resolution video recorders in the late 1970s and 1980s, wrapped the 1-inch tape about 190 degrees around the two-headed drum, so there was signal overlap between the two heads.

Tim D. White of the University of California also challenged the findings, asking, " How can practitioners in this field possibly expect to be able to accurately identify fossil species based upon a few teeth, jaws, and lower faces in light of what we know about the great variation found among different individuals in a single living species?

In addition to Mexican food, California restaurants serve up nearly every other variation of Central American food there is.

* Jehl, Joseph R. Jr. ( 1987 ): Geographic variation and evolution in the California Gull ( Larus californicus ).

The Observatory — along with observatories in Cincinnati, Ohio ; Ukiah, California ; Mizusawa, Japan ; Charjui in Russian Turkestan ; and Carloforte, Sardina, Italy — performed in concert to carry out a coordinated program of star observation designed to investigate and calculate the degree of earth “ wobble ” or latitude variation.

This was an eight track variation of the four track Muntz Stereo-Pak tape cartridge, marketed by Earl " Madman " Muntz in California in 1962, itself a version of a 3-track system, Fidelipac.

California Cassino is a variation for two, three, four or six players, played with a standard deck of cards.

While, like ALPCA, most jurisdictions began issuing license plates with # 1, and just kept going, currently, most states now employ some variation of the six or seven digit system pioneered by California in 1955, when it became the first to run out of the most common alpha / numeric combinations.

Spatial and temporal variation of fire regimes in a mixed conifer forest landscape, Southern Cascades, California, USA.

During the day, the Alexander Valley is one of the warmest areas in Northern California but a night experiences a wide diurnal temperature variation that offers cool climate conditions.

A distantly related variation on the English double bridle is the " two rein " setup used in the western riding classic vaquero tradition ( also known as the " buckaroo " or " California " tradition ) of developing a " spade bit " horse.

On April 17, 1883, Deidrick received U. S. Patent 275, 893 for his horse-drawn scraper, which was a variation on the Buck Scraper, invented by James Porteous of Fresno, California.

In a variation practiced widely in Santa Clara County, California elementary schools as late as the mid-1980s, each time a player earned an out, his " butt was up ," and he would stand with hands against the wall, waiting to be pegged by the player who threw him out.