Many nuclear tests were undertaken in the Marshall Islands and at the Nevada Test Site.

Many fast food operations have more local and regional roots, such as White Castle in the Midwest United States, along with Hardee's ( owned by CKE Restaurants, which also owns Carl's Jr., whose locations are primarily on the United States West Coast ); Krystal, Bojangles ' Famous Chicken ' n Biscuits, Cook Out, and Zaxby's restaurants in the American Southeast ; Raising Cane's in Louisiana ; Hot ' n Now in Michigan and Wisconsin ; In-N-Out Burger ( in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Texas ) and Original Tommy's chains in Southern California ; Dick's Drive-In in Seattle, Washington and Arctic Circle in Utah and other western states ; Halo Burger around Flint, Michigan and Burgerville in the Portland, Oregon area.

Many wallflowers are endemic to small areas, such as the Teide wallflower E. scoparium, endemic to the Teide volcano on Tenerife, E. aetnense endemic to the Etna volcano in Sicily, the Franciscan wallflower E. franciscanum, endemic to the northern California coast, the Sierra Nevada wallflower E. nevadense, endemic to the Sierra Nevada of Spain, E. moranii from Guadalupe Island ( Mexico ), and the endangered Santa Cruz wallflower E. teretifolium, endemic to the inland sandhills of Santa Cruz County, California.

Many exteriors were filmed on location in Palm Springs, Lucerne Valley, the Ojai Valley, the Mojave Desert, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and in what is now Westlake Village, adding the cost of transporting cast, crew, and equipment to the swelling budget.

Many groups also set up semi-permanent " peace camps " outside air bases such as Molesworth and Greenham Common, and at the Nevada Test Site.

Many Nevadans ' opposition stemmed from the so-called " Screw Nevada Bill ," the 1987 legislation halting study of Hanford and Texas as potential sites for the waste before conclusions could be met.

Many of the first works, created in the deserts of Nevada, New Mexico, Utah or Arizona were ephemeral in nature and now only exist as video recordings or photographic documents.

Many first ascents in the Sierra Nevada were made on Sierra Club outings.

Many residents from California, Arizona and Nevada look for medical and dental services in Mexicali, because they tend to be less expensive than those in the United States.

Many other trails lead throughout the Merced River watershed, notably the John Muir Trail, which starts near Happy Isles and climbs the Giant Staircase, past Vernal and Nevada Falls, into Little Yosemite Valley and north along Sunrise Creek to join the Pacific Crest Trail near Tuolumne Meadows.

Many botanists consider the California chaparral and woodlands, Sierra Nevada forests, Klamath-Siskiyou forests, and Northern California coastal forests as a single California Floristic Province, excluding the deserts of eastern California, which belong to other floristic provinces.

Many Bioregionalists, including poet Gary Snyder, identify the central and northern Coast Ranges, Klamath-Siskiyou, the Central Valley, and Sierra Nevada as the Shasta Bioregion or the Alta California Bioregion

Many key shots of the movie were made on location in the Sierra Nevada.

Many Bioregionalists, including poet Gary Snyder, identify the central and northern Coast Ranges, Klamath-Siskiyou, the Central Valley, and Sierra Nevada as Alta California or the Shasta Bioregion.

Many other programs such as Area 51 in Groom Lake, Nevada, and many experimental or covert military programs as well are said to be run by black budgets.

Many lawyers and judges in the Nevada legal community regarded it as a case of selective prosecution.

Many eventually migrated to Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Mexico.

Many mountain ranges, such as the Sierra Nevada in California, are formed mostly by intrusive rock, large granite ( or related rock ) formations.

Many of these mills were built with loans from the Bank of California, whose Nevada agent, William Sharon, would foreclose upon the mills when their owners defaulted on loan payments.

Many such craters are present at the Nevada Test Site, which is no longer in use for nuclear testing.

Many Nevada students hail from Las Vegas and view UNLV as a glorified community college ; UNLV students see Nevada as an overrated, stodgy institution in an uncultured part of the state.

) Many Californias: Literature from the Golden State ( University of Nevada Press, 1992 ; second edition, 1999 )

Many pop songs are used as anthems, such as Queen's " We Are the Champions ", which is commonly used as a sports anthem.

Many of them take second jobs on the side or even venture into other occupations within the field of sports such as coaching, general management, refereeing or recruiting and scouting up and coming athletes.

Many persons with various physical disabilities participate in extreme sports.

Many early players were introduced to the game by these sports journalists, especially during the 1981 Major League Baseball strike ; with little else to write about, many baseball writers wrote columns about Rotisserie league.

Many sports are commonly played in Fuerteventura, both in the open air and in sports centres across the island.

Many sports still use leather to help in playing the game or protecting players ; its flexibility allows it to be formed and flexed.

Many winter sports, such as skiing, snowboarding, snowmobiling, and snowshoeing depend upon snow.

Many early SCCA events were held on disused air force bases, organized with the help of Air Force General Curtis LeMay, a renowned enthusiast of sports car racing.

Many sports writers and fans fully expected that the Vikings would easily defeat the Chiefs.

Many sports writers predicted that the NFC Championship Game would be much closer than the Redskins ' win over the Lions in the season opening game because Detroit's future hall of fame running back Barry Sanders did not play in it due to injury.

Many sports writers and fans were a bit upset that the Bills advanced to their fourth consecutive Super Bowl.

Many other winter activities and sports focus on ice, which may be contained in an ice rink.

Many great BMX riders go on to other cycling sports like downhill, including Australian Olympian Jared Graves, former " golden child " Eric Carter, and youth BMX racer Aaron Gwin.

Many types exist, small mouth blown whistles for various functions from toys to hunting using bird and fowl calls type whistles, to professional whistles as police, boatswain's pipe, military, sports whistles ( also called pea whistles ), to much larger steam or air preasure operated ones as train whistles, which are steam whistles specifically designed for use on locomotives and ships.

Many athletes receive scholarships to four-year universities after playing at Pierce — and Pierce has some of the top sports facilities in the San Fernando Valley.

Many club sports teams, such as junior football leagues and numerous swimming leagues, also use the symbol of Triton.

Many small towns in the United States use their water towers to advertise local tourism, their local high school sports teams, or other locally notable facts.

Many athletes come to the sport from a background in judo, freestyle wrestling, or other grappling sports such as Sambo.

Many touring car series, such as the BTCC and the now-defunct JTCC distinguish themselves from sports car racing by featuring front-wheel drive, four-wheel drive and rear-wheel drive cars with smaller engines.

Many modern sports are also played in the national stadium in Thimphu, in addition to locally popular sports mentioned earlier.

Many movies with a general sports theme will include ESPN announcers and programming into their storylines ( such as in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, which gently lampoons the channel's multiple outlets by referencing the as-yet-nonexistent ESPN8, " The Ocho ", a reference to a nickname formerly used for ESPN2, " the Deuce "; the slogan for the network was " If it's almost a sport, you'll find it here!

Many jokes have been made by comedians about fake obscure sports that are shown on ESPN.