|
The Carrizo Plain is a large enclosed plain, approximately 50 miles (80 km) long and up to 15 miles (24 km) across, in eastern San Luis Obispo County, California. It contains the 180,000 acre (728 km²) Carrizo Plain National Monument, and it is the largest single native grassland remaining in California. The World Conservation Union or International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) is an international organization dedicated to natural resource conservation. ...
A Natural Monument is a natural/cultural feature which is of outstanding or unique value because of its inherent rarity, representative of aesthetic qualities or cultural significance. ...
Image File history File links Red_pog. ...
Image File history File links US_Locator_Blank. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ...
Maricopa is a city located in Kern County, California. ...
2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
US BLM logo The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior which administers Americas public lands, totaling approximately 261 million surface acres (1,056,229. ...
San Luis Obispo County is a county located on the central Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California, between Los Angeles and the Bay Area. ...
Grasslands are very generally open and continuous, fairly flat area of grass. ...
The plain extends northwest from the town of Maricopa, following the San Andreas Fault. Bordering the plain to the northeast is the Temblor Range, on the other side of which is the California Central Valley. Bordering the plain to the southwest is the Caliente Range. The community of California Valley is on the northern part of the plain. The average elevation of the plain is about 2200 ft (700 m). Soda Lake, a 3000 acre (12 km²) alkaline lake, is in the center of the plain. It receives all of the runoff from both sides of the plain because it is an enclosed basin. At 5106 ft (1556 m), Caliente Mountain stands as the highest point in San Luis Obispo County. Maricopa is a city located in Kern County, California. ...
View of the San Andreas Fault on the Carrizo Plain in central California, 35°07N, 119°39W The San Andreas Fault is a geological fault that runs a length of roughly 800 miles (1300 kilometres) through western and southern California in the United States. ...
The Temblor Range lies at the southwestern end of the San Joaquin Valley in California in the United States. ...
The California Central Valley Part of the Valley as seen from overhead A typical Central Valley scene at ground level The California Central Valley is a large, flat valley that dominates the central portion of the U.S. state of California. ...
Home to the highest peak in San Luis Obispo County, the 1556 meter (5106 foot) Caliente Peak, the Caliente Range is a west-east trending zone of uplift along the Pacific Coast Ranges. ...
California Valley is an unincorporated community located in the eastern part of San Luis Obispo County, California. ...
Soda Lake, in San Luis Obispo County, California, is located southwest side of the northern Carrizo Plain, with about 30% of the closed drainage basin to the north of the lake and 70% south of it. ...
San Luis Obispo County is a county located on Californias central Pacific coast, between Los Angeles and the Bay Area. ...
The Carrizo Plain is one of the easiest places to see the San Andreas Fault; it is clearly visible along the eastern side of the plain, at the foot of the Temblor Range. It is best seen in early morning and evening light, when shadows make the topography visible. In addition to its spring wildflower displays, Carrizo Plain is famous for Painted Rock, a sandstone alcove adorned with pictographs created by the Chumash people around 2000 BC. Rafael, a Chumash in the 1800s Pre-contact distribution of the Chumash The Chumash are a Native American tribe who historically inhabit mainly the southern coastal regions of California, in the vicinity of what is now Santa Barbara and Ventura, extending as far south as Malibu. ...
Management
Land management of the Carrizo Plain is a joint project between the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, California Department of Fish and Game,and the Nature Conservancy, which owns much of the land. One of the current range management projects involves removing non-native grasses by selective cattle grazing early in the season (when non-native plants first emerge). Later in the season, the cattle are removed and native plants have a competitive advantage versus the non-native vegetation. US BLM logo The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior which administers Americas public lands, totaling approximately 261 million surface acres (1,056,229. ...
The Nature Conservancy is an environmental organization, founded in 1951. ...
Fauna Wildlife of the Carrizo includes the San Joaquin Kit Fox, the giant kangaroo rat, reintroduced Tule Elk, and Pronghorn. The Le Conte's Thrasher of the Southwestern U.S. has a disjunct north range in the Carrizo Plain because of its hotter climate and ecology. Binomial name Antilocapra americana Ord, 1815 Subspecies The Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is the only surviving member of the family Antilocapridae, and the fastest mammal in North America running at speeds of 58 mph (90 km/h). ...
Binomial name Toxostoma lecontei (Lawrence, 1851) The Le Contes Thrasher (Toxostoma lecontei) is a pale bird found in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. ...
Regional definitions vary from source to source. ...
Access California Highway 166 passes the south entrance to the Carrizo Plain, and California Highway 58 crosses through the northern portion. Connecting them is narrow Soda Lake Road, the only dependably passable road through the plain. It is gravel for much of its extent.
National Landscape Conservation System Carrizo Plain National Monument is a component of the BLM's National Landscape Conservation System.
Manager suicide In 2005, the Department of the Interior, Office of the Inspector General conducted an investigation into the suicide of late monument manager, Marlene A. Braun. An August 8, 2005 letter from the Office of the Inspector General says there was a conflict between Braun and her supervisor which went back to 2004. She was allegedly suspended for five days in January 2005. According to the letter, the Bureau of Land Management Region office also conducted an investigation into the matter. Braun committed suicide in her Carrizo Plains home on May 2, 2005. The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is a Cabinet department of the United States government that manages and conserves most federally-owned land. ...
External links Carrizo Plain, looking southeast from near Soda Lake. Poppies and lupine in the foreground. Image File history File links Commons-logo. ...
Wikimedia Commons logo by Reid Beels The Wikimedia Commons (also called Commons or Wikicommons) is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixels Full resolution (1600 × 1200 pixel, file size: 508 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) PD-self, Carrizo Plain, SLO County, California, March 2003 Note that you can see Mount Pinos in the center distance, with snow on top (elevation...
Binomial name Eschscholzia californica Cham. ...
Lupine may be one of several things: Something that is like, or relating to, a wolf (Canis lupus). ...
| Carrizo Plain, looking northeast from Caliente. foothills. Elkhorn Scarp and San Andreas Fault visible in the distance, below the Temblor Range. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixels Full resolution (1600 × 1200 pixel, file size: 423 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Carrizo Plain, SLO County, California, US. PD-self. ...
Home to the highest peak in San Luis Obispo County, the 1556 meter (5106 foot) Caliente Peak, the Caliente Range is a west-east trending zone of uplift along the Pacific Coast Ranges. ...
View of the San Andreas Fault on the Carrizo Plain in central California, 35°07N, 119°39W The San Andreas Fault is a geological fault that runs a length of roughly 800 miles (1300 kilometres) through western and southern California in the United States. ...
The Temblor Range lies at the southwestern end of the San Joaquin Valley in California in the United States. ...
| The main north-south road, Soda Lake Rd., is only partly paved and can be unusable in wet weather. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 784 × 600 pixels Full resolution (893 × 683 pixel, file size: 482 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Source: David Jordan. ...
| About 25 shy Pronghorn Antelope hang out in the Monument. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 408 × 600 pixels Full resolution (592 × 870 pixel, file size: 404 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Public Domain US Government work courtesy of US Fish and Wildlife Service. ...
Binomial name Antilocapra americana Ord, 1815 Subspecies The Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is the only surviving member of the family Antilocapridae, and the fastest mammal in North America running at speeds of 58 mph (90 km/h). ...
| |
Feeds |
Contact