Halophiles can be found anywhere with a concentration of salt five times greater than the salt concentration of the ocean, such as the Great Salt Lake in Utah, Owens Lake in California, the Dead Sea, and in evaporation ponds.

Owens Lake in California also contains a large population of the halophilic bacteria Halobacterium halobium.

Approximately 1, 500 years ago, the area was settled by the Owens Valley Paiute, who ranged across the Owens Valley from Long Valley on the north to Owens Lake on the south, and from the crest of the Sierra Nevada on the west to the Inyo Mountains on the east.

In fact, the salt sediments of many of these lake beds have been mined for many years for various salts, most notably borax ( this is most famously true for Owens Lake and Death Valley ).

* Owens Lake

The county is named after Mono Lake which, in 1852, was named for a Native American Paiute tribe, the Mono people, that inhabited the Sierra Nevada from north of Mono Lake to Owens Lake.

Cartago is located on the west side of Owens Lake north-northwest of Olancha, at an elevation of 3629 feet ( 1106 m ).

Keeler is located on the east shore of Owens Lake south-southeast of New York Butte, at an elevation of 3602 feet ( 1098 m ).

Keeler is located along the eastern shores of Owens Lake ( a dry lakebed ) along State Route 136.

In 1880 a new mill was constructed at Hawley by the Owens Lake Mining and Milling Company for processing ore from the Cerro Gordo Mines in the mountains to the east.

Water exports from the Owens Valley to the City of Los Angeles in the 1920s led the Owens Lake to eventually dry up, causing alkali dust storms to blow through Keeler, driving many residents away.

Soda works at Keeler at Owens Lake, California.

Located in the Owens Valley next to the now mostly dry Owens Lake, the arid settlement is home to a major bottled water plant for Crystal Geyser Natural Alpine Spring Water.

Olancha Creek flows from the slopes of nearby Olancha Peak ( 12, 123 ft ), passing near the town of Olancha, and finally towards Owens Lake.

Both of these projects had been shortlisted for the 2009 Thiess International Riverprize competing against four other projects: the Yellow River in China, Lake Simcoe in Canada, the Polochic Basin in Guatemala and the Lower Owens River in the USA.

As Euro-American settlement of the area progressed, several violent incidents occurred, including the Pyramid Lake War of 1860, Owens Valley Indian War 1861-1864, Snake War 1864-1868 ; and the Bannock War of 1878.

Other examples are Owens Lake and Mono Lake in California.

In the early 1830s, he met Mary Owens from Kentucky when she was visiting her sister.

Famous Football players from Fermanagh include Roy Carroll, Harry Chatton, Barry Owens and Kyle Lafferty.

No fewer than 545 titles, ranging from satirical poems, political and religious pamphlets and volumes have been ascribed to Defoe ( note: in their Critical Bibliography ( 1998 ), Furbank and Owens argue for the much smaller number of 276 published items ).

On occasion, personalities from TV stations that carried Hee Haw would appear in this segment with Owens or Clark.

In time, Mitchell would be joined by black stars like receiver Charley Taylor, running back Larry Brown, defensive back Brig Owens, and guard John Nisby from the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Water from the Owens River filled the caldera to a depth of as of 600, 000 years ago.

The Owens Valley had received scant attention from European Americans before the early 1860s, as it was little more than a crossroads of the routes through the area.

Initially, it was a temporary " reception center ", known as the Owens Valley Reception Center from March 21, 1942, to May 31, 1942.

Despite four years of use by the incarcerees, the site also retains evidence of the ranches and of the town of Manzanar, as well as artifacts from the days of the Owens Valley Paiute settlement.

As well, Rapper-Singer-Actress Queen Latifah also did something similar when she released The Dana Owens Album under her own given name, Dana Owens, when she changed her musical direction from Hip Hop to Vocal Jazz.

* 1983-Researchers from the Cambridge Radio Astronomy Group and the Owens Valley Radio Observatory first detect the Sunyaev-Zel ' dovich effect from clusters of galaxies

The Basin and Range also contains the Owens Valley, the deepest valley in North America ( more than 10, 000 feet ( 3 km ) deep, as measured from the top of Mount Whitney ).

In 2001, Eric Owens, a former employee, alleged that Mark Weber and Greg Raven from the IHR's staff had been planning to sell their mailing lists to either the Anti-Defamation League or the Church of Scientology.

He returned to college in 1946 and resumed athletics, to which he had been inspired by Jesse Owens, who was also from Cleveland and had attended East Technical High School as well.

In order to provide water needs for the growing City of Los Angeles, water was diverted from the Owens River into the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913.

By tradition and by Carson's own public statements, the impetus for Silent Spring was a letter written in January 1958 by Carson's friend, Olga Owens Huckins, to The Boston Herald, describing the death of numerous birds around her property resulting from the aerial spraying of DDT to kill mosquitoes, a copy of which Huckins sent to Carson.

The major neighborhoods in North Potomac include Potomac Grove, Amberlea Farm, Potomac Farm, Willows of Potomac, Potomac Glen ( also known as Piney Glen Village ), Stonebridge, Stoneview, Washingtonian Woods, Dufief Mill Estates, DuFief, Flints Grove, Mills Farm, Hunting Woods / Potomac Point, Lakewood Estates, Stoney creek Estates, Potomac Chase Estates, Potomac Crossing, Potomac Edge, Potomac Mill Farm, Potomac Oaks, Potomac Preserve, Potomac Ridge, Potomac Haven Estates, Potomac Valley ( Owens Glen ), Quail Run, Quince Haven, Quince Orchard Knolls, Travilah Meadows, Travilah Grove, Traville, Tobytown, and Westleigh.

* Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic-LPGA golf tournament held at Highland Meadows Golf Club

Pressel made her first hole-in-one as a professional golfer on July 15, 2007, at the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic at Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania, Ohio.

* Owens Corners – A location east of Clarks Corners on County Road 24 at County Road 25.

Owens Valley, Alabama Hills, and Owens Lake seen from Whitney Portal Road, west of Lone Pine, CA.

* Mitch Owens Road

* Mitch Owens Road

In 1843, John Surratt purchased from his adoptive father of land straddling the D. C ./ Maryland border, a parcel named " Foxhall " ( approximately the area between Wheeler Road and Owens Road today ).

Old Prescott Road is a road in Greely community in Ottawa, Canada, that goes from Mitch Owens Road all the way to Stagecoach Road.

Mitch Owens Road ( Ottawa Road # 8 ) runs along the border primarily of the former city of Gloucester and Osgoode Township.

There is a gas station at the corner of Albion Road and Mitch Owens.

# redirect Mitch Owens Road

In 1994, Conrail abandoned twelve miles ( 19 km ) of track between Rochester and Brockport, New York ; the Falls Road Branch now terminates in Brockport, east of Owens Rd at Mile Post 16. 60.

Today, its zoning border covers areas east of Nellis Boulevard, north of Bonanza Road and south of Owens Avenue.

** Ashburne Hall and Sheavyn House – on Old Hall Lane / Wilmslow Road to the north of Owens Park