Inner North Coast Ranges
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

The Inner North Coast Ranges occur along the east slope of the outer Northern
California Coast Ranges The Coast Ranges of California span from Del Norte County, California, Del Norte or Humboldt County, California, south to Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara County. The other three coastal California mountain ranges are the Trans ...
. The term ''inner'' is a reference to the greater distances of the
mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have aris ...
s from the
Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...
, compared to the ''outer'' ranges that are nearer to that ocean, and often larger.


Geography

The inner ranges of mountains and
hill A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain. It often has a distinct summit, and is usually applied to peaks which are above elevation compared to the relative landmass, though not as prominent as Mountain, mountains. Hills ...
s run from near
Anderson, California Anderson is a city in Shasta County, California, approximately south of Redding. Its population is 11,323 as of the 2020 census, up from 9,932 from the 2010 census. Located north of Sacramento, the city's roots are as a railroad town near ...
at the south end of the High North Coast Ranges, southwards to west of the Russian River.


Ecology

Willis Linn Jepson Willis Linn Jepson (August 19, 1867 â€“ November 7, 1946) was a late-19th and 20th century California botanist, professor, conservationist, and writer. A co-founder of the Sierra Club in 1892, he was much honored in later life for his rese ...
was one of the first to describe the
flora Flora (: floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous (ecology), indigenous) native plant, native plants. The corresponding term for animals is ''fauna'', and for f ...
of the Inner North Coast Ranges. Jepson noted the presence of Yellow Pine (''Pinus ponderosa'') and Sugar Pine (''Pinus lambertiana'') species.Willis Linn Jepson. 1909


See also

*
Inner Coast Ranges The Inner Coast Ranges are a long mountain range subsystem of the California Coast Ranges, running generally north–south in western California, from Santa Barbara County north to the Klamath Mountains system. Geography The term ''inner'' is a re ...
*
California Coast Ranges The Coast Ranges of California span from Del Norte County, California, Del Norte or Humboldt County, California, south to Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara County. The other three coastal California mountain ranges are the Trans ...
* List of ''Pinus'' species * Index: Natural history of the California Coast Ranges


References

* Willis Linn Jepson. 1909. ''The trees of California'', 228 pages, Published by Cunningham, Curtis & Welch


Line notes


External links

California Coast Ranges Landforms of Tehama County, California Mountain ranges of Glenn County, California Mountain ranges of Butte County, California Mountain ranges of Northern California {{TehamaCountyCA-geo-stub