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	Tehachapi Mountains Birding Club info
		The October 9 meeting of the Tehachapi Mountains Birding Club will feature the recorded calls paired with slides of 50 different birds commonly encountered in the Tehachapi area.
		Over 80 species of birds were observed in the Tehachapi Mountains in the month of September.
		A kettle of white vultures would be a little unexpected over Tehachapi.
	www.tmbc.info (993 words)

	Tehachapi, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tehachapi is a city incorporated in 1909 located in its namesake Tehachapi Mountains between Bakersfield and Mojave in Kern County, California.
		Tehachapi was preceded by a settlement a few miles west of it called Williamsburg or "Tehichipa" which was in existence in the 1870's.
		Tehachapi was near the epicenter of a magnitude 7.5 (Richter scale) earthquake on the little known White Wolf fault on July 21, 1952.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tehachapi,_California (783 words)

	Tehachapi Mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tehachapi Mountains are a short transverse range in southern California in the United States, running SW-NE to connect the Coast Ranges on the west with the southern end of the Sierra Nevada mountains on the east.
		The Tehachapi Loop provides a major railroad link across the mountains and is considered an engineering marvel.
		The Tehachapis, though not a long or high mountain range as California mountain ranges go, are regarded by many Californians the dividing feature that separates northern California from southern California (though some contend that southern California extends as far north as the Fresno area).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tehachapi_Mountains (347 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Tehachapi Mountains
		Tehachapi Mountains, mountain range, southern California, running from east to west between the Sierra Nevada and the Coast ranges.
		Mountain, name usually applied to region of land that is raised rather steeply above the surrounding terrain.
		Mountain, The (French Le Montagne), name applied during the French Revolution to the party of extreme radicals led by Maximilien de Robespierre and...
	encarta.msn.com /Tehachapi_Mountains.html (121 words)

	Self-Guided Tour to the Wind Farms of the Tehachapi Pass
		Highway 58 and the railroad pierce the ridges east of Tehachapi on the northeast side of the valley in a steep-sided canyon that follows the trace of the Garlock Fault.
		The route crosses the length of the Tehachapi Valley, a rough rectangle bounded by faults.
		Westerly winds from the San Joaquin Valley are funneled between the peaks through the Tehachapi Pass toward the ridges at the eastern end of the valley.
	www.wind-works.org /articles/TehachapiTourGuide.html (1952 words)

	Natural History of Tomo-Kahni State Park
		The Tehachapi Mountains, which are the southern extension of the southern Sierras, have been rotated in a westerly direction, forming a transverse range that runs east/west.
		Tehachapi is indeed the land of four seasons.
		The Tehachapi, Piute and Scodie Mountains are subject to all five wind flows: Polar, Pacific, Sub-tropical, Continental and Gulf.
	www.bakersfield.org /tkpark/nathx.htm (1034 words)

	Tehachapi News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The longest flight out of Mountain Valley Airport was in excess of 655 miles and took about eight and a half hours.
		Mountain grown, tree-ripened apples, sweet plump raspberries, dried fragrant lavender, freshly pressed cider, jars of apple butter and steaming right-out-of-the-oven baked goods are the items that you will find on the shelves of Tehachapi farms and ranches this fall.
		The band will also be performing dust bowl songs at the Tehachapi Library's presentation of the "Grapes of Wrath" on Oct. 12 and will play the Kern County fairgrounds for the Christmas Bazaar on Nov. 16 and 17.
	www.tehachapinews.com /visit (4237 words)

	Windfarms in California
		Tehachapi's wind plants offset the emission of seven million pounds of sulfur oxydes, nitrogen oxydes, and particulates that otherwise would be produced by relatively clean burning natural gas.
		The Tehachapi Pass is one of the windiest areas in the world.
		Of the 16,000 wind turbines in California, 5,000 are in the Tehachapi Pass.
	www.presscom.com /windfarms.shtml (514 words)

	www.greatescapes.com - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		These massive whirling blades are harnessing the power of the ever-present winds of the Tehachapi Mountains.
		Among these is a tour of an ostrich farm at Indian Point Ranch, a few miles west of the township of Tehachapi at the end of Giraudo Road in the Cummings Valley area.
		The Tehachapi Growers Association boasts 20 member growers who offer their delicious fruits during the season from September to November.
	www.dailynews.com /Stories/0,1413,291~29509~2478410,00.html (627 words)

	The Winter Weather Report
		The storm also brought up to one foot of snow to the mountains, with Interstate 5 closed on the Grapevine in the Tehachapi Mountains for about three hours.
		Snow fell on the mountains to the 4000 foot level and gusty winds developed in the mountains and the Kern County deserts.
		The high pressure that cleared the skies also caused gusty west winds in the Kern County mountains and deserts, with gusts to 40 mph at Inyokern and in excess of 50 mph at Mojave.
	www.wrh.noaa.gov /hnx/newslet/spring98/story7.htm (2093 words)

	RoadTrip America® - Train Watching in the Tehachapi Mountains
		Bruce is a Renaissance man. In addition to his status as consummate train aficionado, he's a photographer for the Pasadena Police Department, a bus driver, and a dentist.
		The Tehachapis were the reason we were here.
		The elegant solution to the problem the Tehachapis presented was The Loop, a stretch of railroad that circles over itself in spiral fashion and allows a regular train to gain 77 feet of elevation in less than 4000 feet of track.
	www.roadtripamerica.com /places/tehachap.htm (1108 words)

	Editorial: Two engineering miracles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Tehachapi Mayor John Rombouts and retired phone company engineer Harrison Scott of Torrance are supporters of two significant transportation engineering projects in and near Kern County.
		He believes ``the sleeping giant of the future'' for Tehachapi is tourism.
		He sought the designation to preserve about 18 miles of the historic passageway that was the first road over the Tehachapi Mountains between Los Angeles and Bakersfield.
	www.csubak.edu /~mevans/kern/news/c971026a.html (764 words)

	Tehachapi Loop, Railroad Engineering Marvel in Tehachapi, CA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Tehachapi Loop, Railroad Engineering Marvel in Tehachapi, CA The Tehachapi Loop is one of the great engineering feats of the 19th century.
		It was finished in July, 1876 and allowed the Southern Pacific Railroad to bring trains through California's San Joaquin Valley over the Tehachapi Mountains to the Los Angeles area.
		The route through the mountains from Bakersfield at 500 feet above sea level rises to the Tehachapi Summit at 4065 feet in only 16 miles.
	www.country-real-estate.net /loop.htm (221 words)

	TEHACHAPI MOUNTAINS FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Tehachapi_Loop provides a major railroad link across the mountains and is considered an engineering marvel.
		Because the Ridge_Route auto highway was constructed across these mountains and the ranges south of it in the early 20th century, many historians say California averted a potential split into two separate states - North California and South California.
		The Monolith cement works, which supplied cement for the construction of Hoover_Dam, among other major public works, is situated in the Tehachapis east of Tehachapi Pass.
	www.amysflowershop.com /Tehachapi_Mountains (317 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro -- Locomotive dream
		The real Tehachapi Pass railroad was built in the 1870s by The Southern Pacific Railway Co. to connect Bakersfield in Central California and Mojave, about 95 miles north of Los Angeles.
		The challenge was overcoming the barrier imposed by the Tehachapi Mountains.
		At 4,000 feet, the Tehachapi Pass is the lowest crossing of the mountain range, but one section presented a major obstacle because the grade was too steep.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/metro/20050802-9999-1m2train.html (1177 words)

	LPA
		Spring is arriving on the desert floor and snow is still on the mountains.
		Closer to home the Foothills of the Tehachapi’s between the Caliente turnoff on Highway 58 and the San Joaquin valley remind one of the green green hills of Ireland (minus the sheep, of course).
		This area is particularly nice at the moment with the early morning mist hanging in the valleys.
	www.lpaphotography.org /MemberArticles/TedAyers/Wildflowers/wf.htm (475 words)

	RCD Watershed Information Sharing Project
		The Tehachapi Conservation District is situated in the Tehachapi Mountains separating the southern San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.
		The Tehachapi Mountains and Tehachapi Valley lie in a transverse direction at the very base of the Sierra Nevada range as a result of uplifting along the Garlock Earthquake Fault.
		This transverse aspect of Tehachapi's mountains and valleys gives rise to the more arid Sagebrush Pin on Pine-California Juniper Woodland plant communities to the east, gradually merging into the Blue Oak-Grey Pine Woodlands characteristic of the Sierra Foothills to the west.
	carcd.org /wisp/tehachapi (1305 words)

	Trainorders.com Tehachapi RailCam Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Tehachapi (teh-hatch-uh-pee) is the busiest single tracked mainline in the world.
		It runs through the rugged Tehachapi Mountains between Mojave and Bakersfield in Southern California.
		The Railcam is located between Cable and the world famous Tehachapi Loop where the rails pass over themselves to maintain a passable 2.2% grade.
	www.trainorders.com /cameras/tehachapi/huh.php (938 words)

	Fall Wx Summary
		September began with a push of subtropical moisture over the Tehachapi Mountains, triggering a thunderstorm over the Cameron Canyon area.
		Unsettled weather continued over the Tehachapi Mountains the next day with light showers falling on parts of the Grapevine.
		Over seven feet of new snow fell on the Chagoopa Plateau in the Tulare county mountains, which saw a final storm total of 80 inches of snow.
	www.wrh.noaa.gov /hnx/newslet/winter02/summary.htm (989 words)

	Tehachapi Loop - LetsGoSeeIt.com
		In front of you is the world famous Tehachapi Loop which is about halfway upgrade to the Tehachapi Pass.
		The Tehachapi Pass Railroad Line was cut through solid and decomposed granite by up to 3000 Chinese laborers from Canton China.
		This line, which climbs out of the San Joaquin Valley and through the Tehachapi Mountains had 18 tunnels, 10 bridges and numerous water towers for the old steam locomotives.
	www.letsgoseeit.com /index/county/kern/tehachapi/loc01/loop.htm (422 words)

	Tehachapi News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		She did, however, know that never had the Tehachapi Loop been celebrated with a pictorial cancellation and she felt it was time.
		Johnson is hosting an open house for visitors as part of the celebration of the Loop — and since the post office is just under two miles from the Loop, there will be time for philatelists to indulge their inner railfan.
		The Loop is a 3,799-foot-long stretch of track that changed an impossibly steep section of the Tehachapis to the busiest single-track line in the world.
	www.tehachapinews.com /07062005/the.html (908 words)

	bakersfield.com - Destinations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Tehachapi Mountains on the eastern and southern borders of the San Joaquin Valley, from the city of Tehachapi to Frazier Park, provide scenic hikes for intrepid trekkers.
		The Pine Mountain Condor Group of the Sierra Club has short and long trips in the southern Kern County mountains.
		The trail is a quarter mile long at an elevation of 5,920 feet and contains 20 markers that describe the vegetation and history of the Nu-oo-ah Tribe, the indigenous people of that area.
	www.bakersfield.com /static/destinations/things/hiking.html (258 words)

	Tomo-Kahni SHP
		Nestled atop a ridge in the Tehachapi Mountains, overlooking Sand Canyon to the east and the Tehachapi valley to the west, Tomo-Kahni, or "Winter Village," was the site of a Kawaiisu (Nuooah Village.) The location was likely chosen for its moderate temperature and plentiful resources.
		The Kawaiisu migrated from the Great Basin and made the Tehachapi their home for two to three thousand years.
		They traveled from the valley into the mountains and even the desert to gather supplies for everyday use and to prepare stores for the winter.
	www.parks.ca.gov /?page_id=610 (650 words)

	TEHACHAPI LOOP
		The path was blocked by the rugged Tehachapi Mountain range, which acts as an east-west barrier between Bakersfield and Los Angeles.
		From Caliente to the summit (now the City of Tehachapi) the rise is 2,735 feet.
		Speakers at the October 10 presentation were Tehachapi Mayor John Rombouts, civil engineer Warren Minner, Chuck Kirkland (president of the Tehachapi Loop Railroad Club), Del Troy (president of the Tehachapi Heritage League), and Mary Ming, Bakersfield historian.
	www.tehachapi.com /loop (1131 words)

	About Tehachapi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Set against the backdrop of the Sierra Nevada and the Tehachapi Mountains, the residents of Tehachapi bask in clear air, abundant, clean water, and a quality of life which strikes an ideal balance with nature.
		July 10, 1876 is the birthday of the Town of Tehachapi.
		Surrounded by natural beauty, "art in public places and music in the mountains", it's no wonder people from all walks of life have chosen to make Tehachapi their home.
	coldwell.iwvisp.com /tehachapi/about.htm (225 words)

	Ecological Subregions of California: M261Fd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This subsection comprises the lower slopes around the southern end of the Greenhorn Mountains and on the western sides of Breckenridge Mountain and the Tehachapi Mountains.
		This subsection is mostly on moderately steep to steep mountains and hills.
		Ridges at the northwestern end of the Tehachapi mountains curve from east-west around toward the west-northwest.
	www.fs.fed.us /r5/projects/ecoregions/m261fd.htm (400 words)

	UTU: News
		The tracks over the Tehachapi mountains are close to capacity from freight trains, officials said.
		The steepest grade of California's rail system, the Tehachapi tracks pass though numerous tunnels and the 127-year-old "Tehachapi loop." To avoid too steep a climb, the tracks go around a hill and back over themselves.
		Passenger train advocates acknowledge the Tehachapi route does have heavy freight traffic, but a study could show there is capacity for one passenger train.
	www.utu.org /worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=5072 (388 words)

	The Greater Tehachapi Community
		Our Railroading pages will introduce you to the famed Tehachapi Loop, one of the "Seven Wonders of the Railroad World." If you're new to the local equestrian community, you might want to visit Horse Country.
		Along the way you'll cut through the eastern end of the Tehachapi mountains and cross the Pacific Crest Trail.
		You'll also see some of the wind farms that make the Tehachapi area one of the world's leading producers of clean, renewable energy.
	www.tehachapicentral.com /community001.html (397 words)

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