An unusual association of Manzanita occurs on Hood Mountain, in Sonoma County, California, where stands of pygmy forest dominated by Mendocino Cypress are found.

Notable occurrences of Bishop Pine is in association with Mendocino Cypress as a pygmy forest on coastal terraces in Mendocino County and Sonoma County, including one location within Salt Point State Park.

More modern taxonomic thinking classifies Mendocino Cypress as a separate species Cupressus pigmaea, and not a variety of C. goveniana.

Cupressus pygmaea ( Mendocino Cypress ) is a taxon of disputed status in the genus Cupressus endemic to certain coastal terraces and coastal mountain ranges of Mendocino and Sonoma Counties in northwestern California.

The Mendocino Cypress differs little from C. goveniana in morphology, with the most conspicuous difference in herbarium material being the usually glossy black seeds, unlike the dull brown seeds of C. goveniana, but even this character is not constant, with dull brown seeds found in the southernmost populations of C. pygmaea near Point Arena.

The Mendocino Cypress is highly variable in growth form, depending on soil conditions.

The Mendocino County official soils survey states that " While not formally recognized as a major forest cover type, the coastal portion of the survey area also includes Bishop Pine and Mendocino Cypress ( pygmy ) forest types ".

In the Mendocino Cypress pygmy forests biomass was measured to range between 1. 6 and 4. 4 kilograms per square meter aboveground ; moreover, net primary productivity was found to measure 180 to 360 grams per square meter per annum above the ground surface.

The dividing line between the two is very sharp, five miles ( 8 km ) south of the boundary between Mendocino County and Sonoma County, California.

In 1989 genetic studies showed D. copei to be a distinct subspecies, and the D. ensatus populations to consist of three subspecies: the Idaho Giant Salamander ( Dicamptodon aterrimus ) in Idaho, and two highly divergent species with a narrow hybrid zone in California, the Coastal Giant Salamander ( Dicamptodon tenebrosus ) ( ranging from northern California to Washington ) and the California Giant Salamander ( Dicamptodon ensatus ) ( limited only from Santa Cruz County to Mendocino County in California ).

Sockeye salmon ranges as far south as the Columbia River in the eastern Pacific ( though individuals have been spotted as far south as the 10 Mile River on the Mendocino Coast of California ) and northern Hokkaidō Island in Japan in the western Pacific, and as far north as Bathurst Inlet in the Canadian Arctic in the east and the Anadyr River in Siberia in the west.

Category: Mountain ranges of Mendocino County, California

: Mendocino and Sonoma Counties, coastal, within 10 km of the coast and below 500 m altitude.

The Mattole, including the Bear River Indians, are a group of Native Americans traditionally living on the Mattole and Bear rivers in the vicinity of Cape Mendocino, within the present Humboldt County, California.

The Cape Mendocino Coast. Cape Mendocino located on the Lost Coast entirely within Humboldt County, California, USA, is the westernmost point on the coast of California.

Hendy Woods State Park lies in the Anderson Valley of Mendocino County, approximately a three-hour drive north of San Francisco ; it is the only large park within the Anderson Valley.

American Viticultural Areas range in size from the Upper Mississippi Valley AVA at across four states, to the Cole Ranch AVA in Mendocino County, California, at only.

Mendocino National Forest and Los Padres National Forest are the only two national forests in California to have tule elk.

* Open by appointment only in Mendocino, California

However, Mendocino Woodlands is the only one of the campgrounds that has been continuously used for public camping.

The park is one of only two in Mendocino County to fully comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

In 1978, when Ryder was seven years old, she and her family relocated to Rainbow, a commune near Elk, Mendocino County, California, where they lived with seven other families on a plot of land.

* Largo, California, a community in Mendocino County

* Elk, Mendocino County, California

* Redwood Valley AVA, California wine region in Mendocino County

After divorcing Mike Sweeney, Bari moved northward to Mendocino County.

By the following year, Mendocino County had been convinced that the public interest was best served by reclaiming for the public domain 300, 000 acres of timber land from Louisiana Pacific.

* Anderson, Mendocino County, California

** Anderson Valley AVA, California wine region in Mendocino County

* Alpine, Mendocino County, California

* Riverdale, Mendocino County, California

* Mendocino County, California-west

The major coastal hydrographic features are Bodega Bay, the mouth of the Russian River, and the mouth of the Gualala River, at the border with Mendocino County.

The river rises in the coastal mountains of Mendocino County, north of the city of Ukiah, and flows into Lake Mendocino, a major flood control reservoir.

The Russian flows south from the lake through Mendocino to Sonoma County, paralleled by Highway 101.

* Mendocino County, California — south

* Pine Grove, Mendocino County, California

Cobb borders to the SE Napa County, Sonoma to the West, Mendocino to the N and Colusa to the E. The zip code is 95426.

Covelo is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Mendocino County, California, United States.

Category: Census-designated places in Mendocino County, California

Fort Bragg is a city located in coastal Mendocino County, California along State Route 1, the major north-south highway along the Pacific Coast.

Laytonville is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Mendocino County, California, United States.

Category: Census-designated places in Mendocino County, California

Mendocino ( formerly, Big River, Meiggstown, and Mendocino City ) is an unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California, United States.