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	Ventana Wilderness - Santa Lucia Mountains - Big Sur Back Country - Pelican Network
		Santa Lucia Firs, found only here, grow in remote and rocky places in a range only 12 miles wide and 55 miles long.
		his range is the southernmost home for at least 225 plants from the north, and the northernmost home for at least 90 species from the south.
		Water surrounded the Santa Lucia range, until slowly the Salinas Valley and the Salinan Block, a vast land mass that extends south to Santa Barbara, filled with sediment and became rich growing land.
	www.pelicannetwork.net /ventanawilderness.html (1466 words)

	Santa Lucia Mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Santa Lucia Mountains or Santa Lucia Range is a mountain range in coastal California, running from Monterey southeast for 105 miles (170 km) to San Luis Obispo.
		The first European to document the Santa Lucias was Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo in 1542 while sailing northward along the coast on a Spanish naval expedition.
		The rock of the Santa Lucias is dominated by granitic basement of the Salinian Block, between the San Andreas fault and Sur-Nacimiento fault.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santa_Lucia_Mountains (553 words)

	Bosque Nublado Santa Lucia
		Santa Lucía Cloudforest Reserve and Ecolodge are in the foothills of the Andes in northwestern Ecuador, in the Choco Bioregion which is considered a ‘ hotspot ' for biodiversity.
		Santa Lucía Lodge is an ideal place for ecotourists to visit, whether you are a birder, a backpacker, a scientist, a nature lover, looking for adventure or simply looking for a break from the city.
		The reserve offers a wide range of attractions such as superb hiking to mountain waterfalls along ancient trails used by the Yumbo people, camping in primary forest, birding including visiting the Andean Cock of the Rock lek, taking part in making panela (sugar) the traditional way or simply relaxing in the hammocks.
	www.santaluciaecuador.com (259 words)

	Santa Lucia F.C. - Official Website
		Santa Lucia failed to take control despite having a five man midfield and while they enjoyed most of the ball possession in the first half, they failed to take the lead and as usual paid dearly for some defensive mistakes.
		Santa Lucia then hit the post from close range and were made to pay for the lost chance when they went behind late in the first half.
		Santa Lucia started the second half in search of an equalizing goal but chances were few and far between, and the passing was not quick and accurate enough to trouble the Siggiewi defence.
	www.staluciafc.7h.com /Luqa.htm (452 words)

	Caliente Range - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The range is an anticlinal structure with a sharp southern boundary defined by the Cuyama River which separates the Caliente Range from the Sierra Madre Mountains in neighboring Santa Barbara County.
		To the northeast, the range is bounded by the Carrizo Plain.
		To the northwest, the range is abutted by the La Panza and Santa Lucia Ranges, two northwest-southeast trending units of the Coast Ranges.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caliente_Range (236 words)

	Remote Sensing Lab - Vegetation Descriptions
		Santa Lucia Fir (Abies bracteata) is found only in the Santa Lucia Range (Los Padres NF) as a narrow endemic species, usually within 15 miles (24 km) of the coast (Coast Section).
		In the Central Coast and Montane Zone, groves of Sargent Cypress are restricted to serpentine, rocky or shallow ultrabasic soils, especially in the Santa Lucia Range.
		Although a range of hydric conditions (dry to saturated) usually occur within the same meadow, wet and mountain meadows are characterized by the permanency of the water source at their lowest topographic levels.
	www.fs.fed.us /r5/rsl/projects/mapping/ccoast-veg-descript.shtml (6883 words)

	UC Santa Cruz - Press Release
		The Santa Lucia Range, rising steeply from California's Big Sur coast, is one of the most environmentally complex and biologically rich areas of the state.
		The ecological significance of the Santa Lucia Mountains was recognized most recently with the passage of the Big Sur Wilderness and Conservation Act of 2002, sponsored by Congressman Sam Farr and Senator Barbara Boxer.
		The focus of the Santa Lucia Gradient Study is rapidly changing biodiversity along steep coastal gradients.
	www.ucsc.edu /news_events/press_releases/text.asp?pid=288 (670 words)

	A time to protect a place
		The Santa Lucia mountain range on the Central California coast is a rare, bold and complex collection of distinctive original California.
		he Big Sur coastline of the Santa Lucia Mountains flanks the Ventana Wilderness, named for the Spanish word for "window." The "ventana" here is formed by the juxtaposition of a suite of conical mountain peaks, made resistant to erosion by their granitic and ancient metamorphic rock structure.
		Composed of great geologic formations from the far north, the far south and from deep inside the earth, the Santa Lucia mountain range is rare and alluring.
	www.pelicannetwork.net /santalucia.reserve.htm (2120 words)

	Santa Lucia Highlands: The SLH Apellation
		The earliest vinifera plantings, in what was to become the Santa Lucia Highlands appellation, took place in the 1790s, with the arrival of the first Spanish missionaries and conquistadors.
		The modern era, however, could be said to begin in the early 1970s, with initial plantings by Rich and Claudia Smith at Paraiso, the McFarland family at Sleepy Hollow, Phil Johnson at La Estancia, and Nicky Hahn at Smith and Hook.
		Winegrowers of the Santa Lucia Highlands are innovators – almost every single vineyard is a living laboratory, with new clones, trellising systems, and farming regimens being continuously explored.
	www.santaluciahighlands.com /appellation.php (311 words)

	choco cloud forest\| e c u a d o r \| b i o d i v e r s i t y
		The area surrounding Santa Lucía, including the pueblos of Nanegal and Mariantias, is located in the southern part of the Choco Bioregion.
		The goal of the the Santa Lucía and Colibrís cooperatives is to continue to conserve this heritage of diverse cloud forest.
		Santa Lucía is particularly known for the variety of hummingbirds, including species like the Violet-tailed Sylph, Booted Racket-tail and Sparkling Violet-ear.
	www.santa-lucia.org /biodiven.html (436 words)

	Visual Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Santa Lucia Range to the west and the Gabilan Range to the east visually define the valley.
		Pastures for grazing cattle and horses are common in the Gabilan and Santa Lucia Ranges.
		The range in fluctuation of reservoir levels is, on average, narrow, with elevations averaging 750 feet (MSL) at its low point in summer/fall and 760 feet at its high point in late winter/spring.
	www.co.monterey.ca.us /mcwra/deir_svwp_2001/5_8.htm (6739 words)

	cloud forest \| e c u a d o r \|community conservation projects
		These areas of degraded pasture-land were the result of more than 20 years that Santa Lucia operated as an agricultural cooperative before changing to a focus on conservation and sustainable development in the 1990s.
		Santa Lucia began a program of English and environmental education for the youth of the surrounding communities.
		There are many opportunities for investigations of the ecology and the flora and fauna of the Chocó cloud forest region, and Santa Lucia encourages researchers to come and study their cloud forest reserve.
	www.santa-lucia.org /project.html (872 words)

	Location - Lucia Lodge
		Another daughter, Lucia Dani, christened after the Santa Lucia mountain range became the postmistress.
		For lack of a better address and because Lucia was so well known, the post officer workers of the time would just say "send it to Lucia." The name stuck and the community took her name.
		Lucia Lodge is located in the heart of the 90 mile long Big Sur area along California's scenic Highway 1.
	www.lucialodge.com /mall/c121/s14406/location.htm (334 words)

	Santa Cruz
		Santa Cruz is a mellow place, and this includes the prevailing attitude toward bikes.
		A wide variety of trails ranging from very smooth fire roads to technical spurts of singletrack can be found along it's windswept coastal foothills and riparian groves in deep gulches leading out to the sea.
		One of the funner places to ride in Santa Cruz, in fact the whole Bay Area, is Soquel Demonstration Forest, where there are miles of moderately to significantly technical singletrack to be had.
	www.gatetrails.com /santacruz.html (8058 words)

	OVER THE SANTA LUCIA
		Although we have been unable to discover any biographical information about its author, Mary L. White, this account of her 1891 over the Santa Lucia Mountains from King City is an absorbing window into the land and culture of the region as it was more than a century ago.
		N a hollow on the seaward side of the Santa Lucia mountains, about sixty miles south of old Monterey, is such a community as one reads about, but seldom sees.
		To the north and the south the range is owned by a few large ranchers, the lime kiln company own the most and best near by, and the rich flats and foothills of the eastern slope comprise one large grant owned by a company in San Francisco.
	www.ventanawild.org /news/fall06/white.html (7137 words)

	STEPS Institute
		The Santa Lucia Range, rising steeply from the Big Sur coast, is one of the most environmentally complex and biologically rich areas of the state.
		As part of a project called the Santa Lucia Gradient Study (SLGS), the STEPS Institute is helping to coordinate a network of researchers, managers, and policy makers concerned with issues of biodiversity along the Central Coast.
		The SLGS project focuses especially on patterns of biological diversity in the environmentally complex area extending from the coastal waters of Big Sur, across the Santa Lucia Range, to the Carmel Valley.
	bio.research.ucsc.edu /STEPS/news/slgs_newshtml.html (586 words)

	Santa Lucia Chapter: Carrizo Plain Natural Area
		Pocketed between the coastal ranges of eastern San Luis Obispo County lies the austere, yet inviting, Carrizo Plain.
		Seeds of exotic plants, many of which were inadvertently carried in the hair, wool and feet of the Spanish livestock, found the overgrazed range a perfect place to germinate and grow.
		Before the later blooming native perennials begin their period of rapid growth the cattle are taken off the range.
	santalucia.sierraclub.org /carrizo.html (1175 words)

	Trail results for Lucia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Wilderness lies near the southern end of the Santa Lucia Range east of San...
		Range and leads to a dramatic vista overlooking the rugged interior of the...
		Park stretches from the willow-lined Carmel River to the crest of the Santa Lucia
	www.trails.com /advancedfind.asp?Keyword=Lucia (643 words)

	AllRefer.com - Santa Lucia Range, California (CA) - (mountain range) - Facts and Information
		AllRefer.com - Santa Lucia Range, California (CA) - (mountain range) - Facts and Information
		Santa Lucia Range, Monterey and San Luis Obispo cos., W Calif., in the Coast Ranges, extending c.140 mi/225 km SE along Pacific Ocean coast from SE of Carmel Bay to Cuyama R. and N end of San Rafael Mts.
		For c.60 mi/97 km in N, it rises steeply from the Pacific; narrow coastal plain boarders S part.
	reference.allrefer.com /gazetteer/S/S05410-santa-lucia-range.html (194 words)

	Activities - Lucia Lodge
		Numerous hiking trails wind through the rugged Santa Lucia Mountain range traversing redwood canyons and sun-drenched ridges.
		While sand beaches are rare along the rocky cliffs of the Big Sur coast, the South Coast around Lucia has some of the most interesting and famous beaches to be found.
		While shy and elusive, the Big Sur range is also home to the cougar or mountain lion, and a variety of foxes.
	www.lucialodge.com /mall/c121/s14406/activities.htm (397 words)

	The Central Coast Region where Seven Peaks is located
		Stretching hundreds of miles from San Luis Obispo in the south to Monterey County in the northern reaches of the Range, the Central Coast is a vast region that encompasses an exceptional diversity of micro-climates.
		Monterey’s prime vineyard areas lie within the 100-mile long Salinas Valley, bordered by the Santa Lucia Mountains on the west side of the range and the Gabilans on the east.
		The Santa Lucia Mountains run north-south along the Western edge of Paso Robles, protecting the valleys from the constant cooling effect of the Pacific Ocean.
	www.7peaks.com /centralcoast/index.htm (740 words)

	ACWA.COM
		Winter-run steelhead in coastal rivers north of and excluding the Pajaro River (near Santa Cruz) are characterized by their ocean-migrant life history, their winter return timing, and by freshwater habitat with more consistent access to the ocean.
		Genetics and climatic data indicate a change in steelhead/rainbow populations in streams south of Santa Cruz, starting with the Pajaro River, where the climate is arid and annual rainfall is highly variable.
		Given that anadromy of steelhead/rainbow in many streams from the Santa Cruz to the Mexican border has been periodically interrupted by drought over at least the last 2,000 years, we conclude that anadromy is not a necessary trait to enable persistence of steelhead/rainbow in these streams.
	www.acwa.com /mediazone/research/steelhead.asp (4676 words)

	Geological Oceanography Lab
		Not only is the Santa Cruz coastline an excellent area to study the marine geology of the past, but it is an excellent area to study how coastal processes effect humans and vice versa.
		The dramatic rises and falls of sea level are recorded by the Tertiary sediments of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
		The porous white layers of the Monterey Formation are composed of silicas from diatoms and radiolarians that flourished in the Miocene (11mya) during periods of strong upwelling.
	geooce.mlml.calstate.edu /rgnalsts.htm (903 words)

	Ecological Subregions of California: 261Aj
		This subsection is the northern part of the Santa Lucia Range.
		It is on the coastal side of the mountain range, between the Salinas Valley and the Pacific Ocean.
		Monterey pine series on the Monterey Peninsula and Santa Lucia fir series on the coastal side of the mountain range are not extensive but are of special interest.
	www.fs.fed.us /r5/projects/ecoregions/261aj.htm (434 words)

	Kingsnake/Milksnake Page - Lampropeltis zonata multifasciata
		From the southern and central part of their range, they tend to have a light orange.
		Found in the Santa Cruz, Santa Ynez Mountains, and the Santa Lucia Range in central California.
		In the Santa Ynez Mountains near Santa Barbara this snake is mainly found in canyon bottoms and chaparral.
	www.kingsnake.com /king/zonata/multifasciata.html (612 words)

	Historian's Report - Arroyo Seco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Arroyo Seco campground lies near, and is named for Arroyo Seco Creek, flowing out of the Santa Lucia Range in southern Monterey County.
		Early legends tell of Indian braves urged by the Spanish to leave the Monterey Mission for the rugged Santa Lucia Mountains, to bring back gold sand and nuggets.
		Surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and Hunter Liggett Military Reservation, most of the Santa Lucia Range is now protected within the Los Padres National Forest, and is as remote and rugged today as it was when the Conquistadors arrived over two centuries ago.
	www.bmwnorcal.org /norcal/bookshelf/hist_arroyo_seco_97.html (295 words)

	Archaeological Investigations at FHL
		Elevations are highest along the installation's western boundary, which follows the main ridge system of the Santa Lucia Range and rises to a maximum of 1,150 m (3,744 ft) at Alder Peak.
		Because the Santa Lucia Range shields it from the tempering effects of the Pacific Ocean, the installation experiences greater extremes in temperature and precipitation than the coast.
		The range during this period was between 7° and 115°F. Mean annual temperature is 58.2°F. Mean rainfall is 19.22 inches.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~tljones/Main.htm (2031 words)

	Geology-Section I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Coastal topography varies greatly, encompassing steep bluffs with flat-topped terraces and pocket beaches to the north; large sandy beaches bordered by cliff and large dune fields mid-sanctuary; and predominately steep, rocky cliffs to the south.
		The Santa Cruz and Gabilan mountain ranges dominate the topography in the northern and central half of the region.
		The broad, extensive Salinas Valley and the northern Santa Lucia Range are the dominant topographic features in the southern half of the region; the Salinas River is the major drainage system (Figure 1).
	bonita.mbnms.nos.noaa.gov /sitechar/geol1.html (279 words)

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