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Agua Hedionda Lagoon Discovery Center. Carlsbad. San Diego. Natural history, ecology and cultural history of the 400-acre lagoon and surrounding area. Alum Rock Science and Nature Center. San Jose. Santa Clara. Operated by the Youth Science Institute in 720-acre Alum Rock Park, natural history exhibits, live animals. American River Nature Center.
Governing body. California Department of Parks and Recreation. Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park is a state park of California, United States, preserving mainly forest and riparian areas in the watershed of the San Lorenzo River, including a grove of old-growth coast redwood. [1] It is located in Santa Cruz County, primarily in the area between ...
1984 (8th Session) Yosemite National Park (/ joʊˈsɛmɪti / yoh-SEM-ih-tee[5]) is a national park of the United States in California. [6][7] It is bordered on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers 759,620 acres (1,187 sq mi; 3,074 ...
Madrona Marsh. Coordinates: 33°49′37″N 118°20′33″W. Madrona Marsh in spring. Drilling rig in Madrona Marsh. Entrance sign. View of pond and trees in Madrona Marsh. The Madrona Marsh Preserve, in the city of Torrance in the South Bay region of Southern California, is a seasonal wetland with vernal pools. The 43 acres (17 ha) was a ...
Governing body. California Department of Parks and Recreation. Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve is a state park of California in the United States established to preserve 805 acres (326 ha) of coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens). The reserve is located in Sonoma County, just north of Guerneville. The reserve is in a temperate rainforest.
Added to NRHP. March 4, 1975. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is the largest natural and historical museum in the western United States. [ 3 ] Its collections include nearly 35 million specimens and artifacts and cover 4.5 billion years of history.
Catalina Island Conservancy's location, the Trailhead, at 708 Crescent Ave. in Avalon on Catalina Island. The Catalina Island Conservancy is a nonprofit organization established to protect and restore Santa Catalina Island, California, United States. The Conservancy was established in 1972 through the efforts of the Wrigley and Offield families ...
The San Diego Natural History Museum is a museum in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It was founded in 1874 as the San Diego Society of Natural History. It is the second oldest scientific institution west of the Mississippi and the oldest in Southern California. The present location of the museum was dedicated on January 14, 1933.