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3 unusual facts about Central California


Jaime Jackson

Jackson resides in Central California and maintains an active trimming and rehabilitation clientele.

Ostrea

At least one species within this genus, Ostrea lurida, has been recovered in archaeological excavations along the Central California coast of the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating it was a marine taxon exploited by the Native American Chumash people as a food source.

Road Hogs

These include road maps of Southern and Central California that indicate where the various factions and gangs occupying the region are located.


Acanthina spirata

This species is known to have been exploited by some Native Americans such as the Chumash of Central California approximately 1000 to 1200 AD.

Calochortus venustus

It is endemic to California, particularly to Central and Southern California and the Sierra Nevadas, where it thrives in the light, sandy soils of a number of habitats, both grasslands and open wooded areas, over a wide range of altitudes.

Ostrea lurida

This species has been recovered in archaeological excavations along the Central California coast of the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating it was a marine species exploited by the Native American Chumash people.


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F.W. Olin Hall

Apparently, wind turbines in the Altamont Pass in central California have killed a disproportionate number of raptors relative in comparison with other bird species.

Marbled Murrelet

Marbled murrelets occur in summer from Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, Barren islands, and Aleutian Islands south along the coast of North America to Point Sal, Santa Barbara County, in south-central California.

Native American religion

The Bole-Maru Religion was a religious revitalization movement of the Maidu, Pomo, Wintun, and other tribes of north-central California in the 19th century.

Pomo people

Numerous clamshell beads, a major currency among the Indians of Central California, were also found, indicating a vast trade network.

Ross McCloud

The McCloud River was likely originally known as the "McLeod River," after Alexander Roderick McLeod, the leader of a number of hunting and trapping expeditions for the Hudson's Bay Company in Northern and Central California.

Trentepohlia aurea

Trentepohlia aurea is a green alga that grows on the trunks and branches of Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa) where the tree occurs in coastal central California.

Vaccinium parvifolium

Vaccinium parvifolium, the red huckleberry, is a species of Vaccinium native to western North America, where it is common in forests from southeastern Alaska and British Columbia south through western Washington and Oregon to central California.

Western gray squirrel

There are three geographical subspecies: Sciurus griseus griseus (central Washington to the western Sierra Nevada in central California); S. g. nigripes (from south of San Francisco Bay to San Luis Obispo County, California; and S. g. anthonyi, which ranges from San Luis Obispo to northern Baja California).

Yanan

Yana language, extinct language formerly spoken in north-central California