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Scott Mountains (California)
The Scott Mountains are a subrange of the Klamath Mountains located in Siskiyou County, in northwestern California. A high point is Scott Mountain Summit, a mountain gap-pass at in elevation. Geography The Scott Mountains are a sub-range within the Klamath Mountains System. The Klamath system are of the Pacific Coast Ranges series of mountain range systems that stretch along the West Coast of North America. The Scott Mountains run from southern Siskiyou County southeast into northern Trinity County. California State Route 3 passes through the range. The Scott Mountains are located approximately west of the towns of Mt. Shasta and Dunsmuir that are on Interstate 5. Recreation The range is within sections of the Klamath National Forest and Shasta-Trinity National Forest. Scott Mountain Campground, is at the Scott Mountain summit in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest section. It is located on the summit's west side at the junction of the Pacific Crest Trail and California S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klamath National Forest
Klamath National Forest is a national forest, in the Klamath Mountains and Cascade Range, located in Siskiyou County in northern California, but with a tiny extension (1.5 percent of the forest) into southern Jackson County in Oregon. The forest contains continuous stands of ponderosa pine, Jeffrey pine, Douglas fir, red fir, white fir, lodgepole pine, Baker Cypress (Cupressus bakeri), and incense cedar. Old growth forest is estimated to cover some of the forest land. Forest headquarters are located in Yreka, California. There are local ranger district offices located in Fort Jones, Happy Camp, and Macdoel, all in California. The Klamath was established on May 6, 1905. This forest includes the Kangaroo Lake and the Sawyers Bar Catholic Church is located within the boundaries of the Forest. The Forest is managed jointly with the Butte Valley National Grassland. Wilderness areas There are four officially designated wilderness areas in Klamath National Forest that are part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain Ranges Of Siskiyou County, California
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher than a hill, typically rising at least 300 metres (1,000 feet) above the surrounding land. A few mountains are isolated summits, but most occur in mountain ranges. Mountains are formed through tectonic forces, erosion, or volcanism, which act on time scales of up to tens of millions of years. Once mountain building ceases, mountains are slowly leveled through the action of weathering, through slumping and other forms of mass wasting, as well as through erosion by rivers and glaciers. High elevations on mountains produce colder climates than at sea level at similar latitude. These colder climates strongly affect the ecosystems of mountains: different elevations have different plants and animals. Because of the less hospitable terrain and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mountain Ranges Of California
The following list comprises the mountain ranges of U.S. State of California designated by the United States Board on Geographic Names and cataloged in the Geographic Names Information System. Mountain ranges * Adobe Hills * Alabama Hills * Alexander Hills * Alvord Mountain * Amargosa Range * Amedee Mountains * Antelope Hills * Argus Range * Arica Mountains * Avawatz Mountains * Bacon Hills * Bald Hills (Humboldt County) * Bald Hills (Lassen County) * Bald Mountain Range * Baldwin Hills * The Balls * Berkeley Hills * Bernasconi Hills * Big Blue Hills * Big Maria Mountains * Big Valley Mountains * Bighorn Mountains * Bird Hills * Bissell Hills * Black Hills (Contra Costa County) * Black Hills (Imperial County) * Black Hills (Kern County) * Black Hills (Riverside County) * Black Hills (San Bernardino County) * Black Mountains * Bodie Hills * Bodie Mountains * Box Springs Mountains * Brawley Peaks * Briones Hills * Bristol Mountains * Buena Vista Hills (Kern Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:Category:Klamath Mountains
*The Klamath Mountains — located in northwestern California and southeastern Oregon. :::*In the Pacific Coast Ranges System, of the North American Cordillera The North American Cordillera, sometimes also called the Western Cordillera of North America, the Western Cordillera or the Pacific Cordillera, is the North American portion of the American Cordillera, the mountain chain system ( cordillera) a .... {{Cat main, Klamath Mountains Mountain ranges of Northern California Mountain ranges of Oregon Pacific Coast Ranges Geologic provinces of California Mountain ranges of Siskiyou County, California Mountain ranges of Trinity County, California Mountain ranges of Del Norte County, California Mountain ranges of Humboldt County, California Mountain ranges of Jackson County, Oregon Landforms of Curry County, Oregon Landforms of Josephine County, Oregon Physiographic sections Wikipedia categories named after mountain ranges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedar Hemlock Douglas-fir Forest
Cedar may refer to: Trees and plants *''Cedrus'', common English name cedar, an Old-World genus of coniferous trees in the plant family Pinaceae *Cedar (plant), a list of trees and plants known as cedar Places United States * Cedar, Arizona * Cedar, Indiana * Cedar, Iowa * Cedar, Kansas * Cedar, Michigan * Cedar, Minnesota, a community Oak Grove, Anoka County * Cedar City, Utah * Cedar, Mingo County, West Virginia * Cedar, Raleigh County, West Virginia * Cedar, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * Cedar County (other), multiple counties * Cedar Township (other), multiple townships * Cedar Station, Texas Elsewhere * Cedar, British Columbia, Canada * Cedars of God, Lebanon, an ancient ''Cedrus libani'' forest and reserve, inscribed on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites Ships * , a Panamanian coastal trading vessel in service from 1955 to 1958 * USLHT ''Cedar'', a United States Lighthouse Service lighthouse tender in commission in 1917 and from 191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California Mixed Evergreen Forest
: California mixed evergreen forest is a plant community found in the mountain ranges of California and southwestern Oregon. The Mixed evergreen forest plant community is native to the Northern and Southern California Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada of central and northern California; the Transverse Ranges and Peninsular Ranges of southern California; and the southwestern Oregon Coast Ranges. California mixed evergreen forests occur in ecoregions of the California Floristic Province, including in areas of the California chaparral and woodlands and its sub-ecoregions, Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains forests, Northern California coastal forests, and Sierra Nevada lower montane forest. The mixed evergreen forests of each ecoregion have slightly different species composition. Klamath-Siskiyou mixed evergreen forest The mixed evergreen forests of the Klamath Mountains-Siskiyou Mountains occur above 300 meters (1000 ft) elevation, and are of four main types. Douglas-fir forests ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plant Community
A plant community is a collection or association of plant species within a designated geographical unit, which forms a relatively uniform patch, distinguishable from neighboring patches of different vegetation types. The components of each plant community are influenced by soil type, topography, climate and human disturbance. In many cases there are several soil types present within a given plant community. This is because the soil type within an area is influenced by two factors, the rate at which water infiltrates or exits (via evapotranspiration) the soil, as well as the rate at which organic matter (any carbon-based compound within the environment, such as decaying plant matter) enters or decays from the soil. Plant communities are studied substantially by ecologists, due to providing information on the effects of dispersal, tolerance to environmental conditions, and response to disturbance of a variety of plant species, information valuable to the comprehension of various pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example ''Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. ''Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howellanthus
''Howellanthus'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the borage family containing the single species ''Howellanthus dalesianus'', commonly known as Scott Mountain phacelia or Howell's phacelia. Until 2010 the plant was known as ''Phacelia dalesiana''.Walden, G. K. and R. Patterson. (2010). ''Howellanthus dalesianus'', Recognition of a new genus and species in Tribe Phacelieae (Boraginaceae). ''Madroño'' 57:4 268–273. It is endemic to the southern Klamath Mountains of northern California, including the Scott Mountains for which it is named. It grows in mountain forests and meadows often on serpentine soils. Description ''Phacelia dalesiana'' is a perennial herb producing a few decumbent stems up to about 15 centimeters long, forming a patch on the ground. It is glandular and hairy in texture. The leaves are located in a rosette, with a few smaller ones along the stems. They are oval and smooth-edged. The inflorescence is a small curving cluster of flowers each just un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biome
A biome () is a biogeographical unit consisting of a biological community that has formed in response to the physical environment in which they are found and a shared regional climate. Biomes may span more than one continent. Biome is a broader term than habitat and can comprise a variety of habitats. While a biome can cover large areas, a microbiome is a mix of organisms that coexist in a defined space on a much smaller scale. For example, the human microbiome is the collection of bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms that are present on or in a human body. A biota is the total collection of organisms of a geographic region or a time period, from local geographic scales and instantaneous temporal scales all the way up to whole-planet and whole-timescale spatiotemporal scales. The biotas of the Earth make up the biosphere. Etymology The term was suggested in 1916 by Clements, originally as a synonym for ''biotic community'' of Möbius (1877). Later, it gained its c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecoregion
An ecoregion (ecological region) or ecozone (ecological zone) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than a biogeographic realm. Ecoregions cover relatively large areas of land or water, and contain characteristic, geographically distinct assemblages of natural communities and species. The biodiversity of flora, fauna and ecosystems that characterise an ecoregion tends to be distinct from that of other ecoregions. In theory, biodiversity or conservation ecoregions are relatively large areas of land or water where the probability of encountering different species and communities at any given point remains relatively constant, within an acceptable range of variation (largely undefined at this point). Three caveats are appropriate for all bio-geographic mapping approaches. Firstly, no single bio-geographic framework is optimal for all taxa. Ecoregions reflect the best compromise for as many taxa as possibl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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