The Sierra Madre Mountain Range serves as the eastern wall of Luzon Island that protects inhibitants from tropical cyclones usually coming from the Pacific Ocean.

San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean.

As the chief engineer of the Central Pacific Railroad, Judah surveyed the route over the Sierra Nevada along which the railroad was to be built during the 1860s.

The Central Pacific laid 690 miles ( 1, 100 km ) of track, starting in Sacramento, California, and continuing over the Sierra Nevada mountains into Nevada.

The Central Pacific Railroad, facing a labor shortage in the more sparsely-settled West, relied on Chinese laborers who did prodigious work building the line over and through the Sierra Nevada mountains and then across Nevada to their meeting in northern Utah.

* Another isolated range, the Sierra Vizcaino, juts out into the Pacific between Punta Eugenia and Punta Abreojos.

* Western Poison oak ( Toxicodendron diversilobum or Rhus diversiloba ) is found throughout much of western North America, ranging from the Pacific coast into the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges between southern British Columbia and southward into Baja California.

In the winter of 2010, Brown returned home to become the Head Wrestling Coach at Sierra Pacific High School in Hanford California.

It operates Hanford High School, Hanford West High School, Sierra Pacific High School as well as Earl F. Johnson High School, which is a continuation high school.

A new state of art comprehensive full-service high school, called Sierra Pacific High School opened on August 13, 2009 with 219 freshman students with the first class set to graduate in 2013.

Other logging companies operating in the area are Roseburg Forest Products, and Sierra Pacific Industries, the latter of which locally utilizes clear-cutting, rather than more environmentally sound practices.

Portola is a crew change site on the Western Pacific Railroad ( now Union Pacific Railroad ) Feather River Route over the Sierra Nevada mountains.

The Wal-Mart Distribution Center, National Vitamin, Beckman Instruments, Standard Register, Sierra Pacific Apparel, Royalty Carpeting, and other small companies have facilities in Porterville.

The Snake River Plain that was also formed by the Yellowstone hotspot is in line with the gap between the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges along the West Coast of the United States so that there is a moisture channel that extends from the distant Pacific Ocean, between the Cascades and Sierra Nevada, though the Rocky Mountains to Island Park.

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.

The Pacific Crest Trail ( commonly abbreviated as the PCT, and occasionally designated as the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail ) is a long-distance mountain hiking and equestrian trail closely aligned with the highest portion of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges, which lie east of the U. S. Pacific coast.

The Pacific Crest Trail is long and ranges in elevation from just above sea level at the Oregon-Washington border to at Forester Pass in the Sierra Nevada.

More specifically, the term refers to an area defined on the east by the Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada and Mojave Desert and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.

For the increasing ranks of recruits, infantry training was carried out at a CIA-run base ( code-named JMTrax ) near Retalhuleu in the Sierra Madre on the Pacific coast of Guatemala.

When the Pacific Forest Reserve was created in 1893, Muir quickly persuaded the newly formed Sierra Club to support a movement to protect Rainier as a national park.

When construction of roads and bridges in Liberia and Sierra Leone is complete, the highway will link to another seven Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) nations to the west and north-west.

When construction and reconstruction of roads in Liberia is complete, the Trans – West African Coastal Highway will cross the country, connecting it to Freetown ( Sierra Leone ), Abidjan ( Côte d ' Ivoire ), and eventually to 11 other nations of the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ).

When construction in Liberia and Sierra Leone is finished, the highway will continue seven other Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) nations further west.

When construction in Liberia and Sierra Leone is finished, the highway will continue west to seven other Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) nations.

Some franchises ( such as Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon ) that were published by Sierra will be published by Activision, which also announced in 2008 that it may sell the Sierra brand.

Snow is not a common sight on the streets of Sierra Vista though some years the city can receive several inches of snow and other years it will receive none.

Also planned is the Marriot Hotel San Luis Potosi to be 17 floors and its height will be between 80 m 100 m, followed three residential towers in the area Sierra Azul a height of approximately 40 meters with a total of 30 floors, plus a building called residecial Vallarta, 8-story tower that is located at Avenida Carranza and other residential tower located in Lomas of about 7 floors.

William Edward Colby, the first secretary of the Sierra Club, called the finished trail " a most appropriate memorial to John Muir, who spent many of the best years of his life exploring the region which it will make accessible.

It was also opposed by the Sierra Club for putting so much more toward roads that will simply fill up again, as well as by the NAACP since it is a regressive tax that would have also applied to basic necessities like groceries, and would have singled-out MARTA as the only agency that would be blocked from receiving operating funds.

Another freeway is under construction named after missionary Junípero Serra who founded the Missions of the Sierra Gorda, this road will create another ring road.

President Kabbah was very grateful to the British Prime Minister, calling his intervention " timely " and one that " Sierra Leonean people will never forget ".

Sierra Nevada will utilize Virgin Galactic to market Dream Chaser commercial services and may use " Virgin ’ s WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft as a platform for drop trials of the Dream Chaser atmospheric test vehicle "

In January 2012, Sierra Nevada announced it will build a second brewing facility with an attached restaurant in Mills River, North Carolina.

The role of SpaceDev will be melded into another of Sierra Nevada's subsidiary companies, MicroSat, to create a more complete space technology unit.

If 25 % of rice farmers in Guinea, Côte d ' Ivoire and Sierra Leone adopt the new varieties it is estimated that USD 20 million will be saved each year.

Prior to the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and the other revolutionaries, through several documents, such as " History will absolve me " ( 1952 ), the " Manifiesto de la Sierra ", etc.

Recently, the government has made a project to link the Pacific Ocean with Angat River in Bulacan's mountains through a tunnel that will traverse Umiray River then cut through the mountains of Sierra Madre straight to Angat River.

People in countries such as Sierra Leone feel that if they kill and therefore reduce the number of African manatees, the chances of their nets requiring expensive repairs will be lessened.

Napoleon wrote lightly, " even if he suffers a setback, ... he will just have to come back over the Sierra.

TEAD will gain the ammunition storage function from Sierra Army Depot, which will be realigning due to Base Realignment and Closure 2005.

The south and west faces are where you will find the majority of the almost 50 high-mountain lakes that exist in the Sierra Nevada, many of which are also the sources of streams and rivers.

The first being named " Wedding Girl " followed by " Mannequin Man " and an online spot, " The Whiner ," which will be posted at the Sierra Mist dedicated site, RefreshYourMind. com