Sierra Nevada

Park, located in the central eastern portion of California, has been founded since 1890. The park is known for its natural habitats and abstract scenery. Tourist enjoy hiking in Tuolumne Meadows, lodging in Yosemite Valley, fishing in the Eastern Sierra and even skiing in the Mammoth Lakes mountain resort. But what any do not know is that all of these attractions were created by one phenomenon, glaciation. On three different occasions during the Great Ice Age era, Yosemite was masked by glacial…

Painted in 1885, Indians at Campfire, Yosemite Valley, California is a painting by a renowned artist named Thomas Hill. Hill was born on September 11, 1829, in England. When he was fifteen years old, he and his family moved to the United States. After Hill had turned twenty-four, he joined the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and was highly recognized for his numerous paintings of the vast California landscape. During the time Hill was a student at the Art Academy, he travels to the White…

will not know what to do, and you won’t assess the situation to your advantage. You also won't be able to figure out your next best option. In “Alone. Injured. Almost Dead: A Gripping Survival Story in the Sierra Nevada” by Kenneth Miller, a guy named Gregg Hein fell off a cliff in the Sierra Nevada. “... but he knew that using a tourniquet could mean losing his limb.” Miller, pg 2). To stop the bleeding Gregg used his knowledge and decided that using a tourniquet was not his best option. If he…

The VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System (VASNHCS) has a current compliance rate of hand hygiene on the floor of less than 50% with bi-annual visual monitoring. This monitoring is carried out by infection control staff members on a 5-day bi-annual basis and may be inaccurate due to basis and visibility limitations. Reporting to the joint commission requires that the VASNHS show improvement with the goal being a compliance rate of 90% or better. The VASHCS has failed to show improvement of 10%…

The Mojave Desert is located about 212 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California, near the border of California and Nevada. Death Valley is located in the eastern part of the Mojave Desert, in California, which is located in the United States of America. Death Valley is 150 miles long and twenty miles wide, mountain ranges can be up to 11,000 feet tall, and areas are…

Adams began involving himself in the Sierra Club and advocating(sv) for the improvement of national parks. Primarily,(ly) his were the first photographs used by the Sierra Club for environmental purposes. In 1968,(prep) he was awarded the Conservation Service Award for his influential(qa) and significant(qa)efforts in preserving the American wilderness. Honoring(ing) his valiant(qa) achievements, the Sierra Club named a mountain for him located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Due to Ansel…

Dear Principal Dr. Anthony Davis, How are you doing today? I have a serious question to ask you. Would you please allow us to go on a field trip to Lava Beds National Monument. This trip would be amazingly exciting. Lava Beds National Monument is located in the state of California. California calls the monument their "best-kept secret." This is because not everyone knows about this beautiful sighting park. The park was formed when it was uncovered by lava and many active volcanoes were erupting.…

The national park, Death Valley is located in California and is 5,262 square miles. It’s a desert terrain that can have temperatures greater than 120 degrees fahrenheit in the summer. The highest temperature ever recorded was 134 degrees during 1913. The average rainfall is about 2 inches, which is much less than most deserts get in the summer time, hence why it’s called Death Valley. In the winter time, Death Valley has mild temperature in the day time and at night, the temperature can get to…

There are many reasons why my hometown of Carson City, Nevada is unique. The arid desert that reaches across the state and runs into the tall, beautiful terrain of the Sierra Mountains. The snowy mountains covered in trees create the almost hidden oasis of crystal water and black sand, Lake Tahoe. The cattle ranches stretching alongside the freeway through Pleasant Valley to “The Biggest Little City” of Reno. What I love most is the communities that have been created in these valleys that…

spring. A relative few extend their hiking season by heading to that least-visited region of California: its deserts. Deserts cover over a third of the state, mostly inland areas in the south, with a finger extending north between the eastern Sierra Nevada and the state boundary. Too often considered monotonous “drive-over country”, California’s deserts are actually quite varied and richly reward those who make the effort to know them. Winter temperatures in the south tend to warm, sunny days…