Pyramid Ridge is a mountain in
Mendocino County, California
Mendocino County (; ''Mendocino'', Spanish for "of Mendoza) is a county located on the North Coast of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 91,601. The county seat is Ukiah.
Mendocino County consists wholly ...
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Location
Pyramid Ridge is in Mendocino County, California, in the
Mayacamas Mountains
The Mayacamas Mountains are located in northwestern California in the United States. The mountain range is part of the Northern Inner Coast Ranges, of the California Coast Ranges System.
Geography
The Mayacamas Mountains are located south of th ...
of the northern
California Coast Ranges
The Coast Ranges of California span from Del Norte or Humboldt County, California, south to Santa Barbara County. The other three coastal California mountain ranges are the Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges and the Klamath Mountains.
Ph ...
.
It is high with a prominence of .
It has isolation of from
Cow Mountain Ridge to the north.
The ridge is long.
The
Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, nota ...
is: Csb : Warm-summer Mediterranean climate.
Human activities
In November 2005 a program funded by the Joint Fire Services Program began on Pyramid Ridge to research fire treatments.
18 plots ranging from in size were selected that contained
knobcone pine
The knobcone pine, ''Pinus attenuata'' (also called ''Pinus tuberculata''), is a tree that grows in mild climates on poor soils. It ranges from the mountains of southern Oregon to Baja California with the greatest concentration in northern Calif ...
s that were dying off for an unknown reason.
3 plots of standing trees were burned, trees on 3 plots were cut and burned, and trees on 3 plots were cut and left to rot.
The
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection was responsible for all the burning.
Pyramid Ridge is only accessible by ATV or horseback.
It is known as a good area for deer hunting.
It is in the South Cow Mountain OHV Recreation Area, and is traversed by Trail 19 of the area.
As of 2016 informally developed trails led from the southeast, southwest and west segments of that trail, which were to be closed, barricaded and restored to a natural state to deter trespass on private property.
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Mountains of Mendocino County, California