#plumas county

[vintagecamping]

Family camping at beautiful Juniper Lake in Plumas County.

California

1973

#vintage camping #campfire light #juniper lake #plumas county #california #volkswagen #vw bus #vw #camping #history #70s

[coolthingsguyslike]

#railroad #trains #Keddie Wye #junction #Plumas County #California #Feather River #Canyon #Western Pacific #Bicentennial #1976

[tpeakphotos]

Abies magnifica, more commonly known as Red Fir or Silver Tip Fir is a beautiful conifer that grows at fairly high elevation, generally between 5 and 9 thousand feet. Smaller trees are definitely favored as Christmas trees and when they get larger their bark takes on a reddish brown hue, hence their common name. Wherever they grow large, it’s a sure bet they’ll be the tallest trees in the area with large specimens reaching as high as 250 feet with trunk diameters occasionally exceeding 6 feet.

On this late August day I took a walk through the aptly named Red Fir Nature Trail near Mills Peak in Plumas County California. It was mid-day so some bright sun was making its way through the dense canopy; perfect conditions for near infrared photography. This image was captured using a full spectrum modified camera fitted with an 830 nanometer filter so no visible light was used in its creation. In my Etsy shop: https://buff.ly/43TLjUV Prints and merch on demand: https://buff.ly/43TLjUV

#original photographers #photographers on tumblr #original photographic works #northern california #original photography on tumblr #plumas county #infraredphotography #infrared photography

[cristinad61]

Plumas County flashback

Highway 32 and Deer Creek from Elam Campground, Lassen National Forest It was around this time last summer that I took a day trip with the Big Guy up to Lake Almanor, with a brief stop in the tiny town of Chester. I shot a few photos, but I was honestly so traumatized at seeing the devastation from the 2021 Dixie Fire that I never shared many of my images. Lately every summer/fall brings dread of…

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#Canon #flowers #Plumas County #SL2 #trees

[mindblowingscience]

For the first time in almost 75 years, beavers were released into California waters as a part of conservation efforts by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and Maidu Summit Consortium. A family of seven beavers swam their way through Tásmam Koyóm, a tribal community in Plumas County that are ancestral land to the Mountain Maidu people. This new family will join a "single resident beaver in the valley" with the goal to re-establish a breeding population, according to the CDFW. Ben Cunningham, chairman of the Maidu Summit Consortium, said the valley had beavers years ago, but due to pioneer interference, the population disappeared.

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#Science #Nature #Ecology #Enviroment #Conservation #Beavers #California

[fatchance]

Plumas brillantes.

Iridescent plumage on Gould’s turkeys / guajolote norteño (Meleagris gallopavo mexicana) at Santa Rita Lodge. In Madera Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Arizona.

#photographers on tumblr #Gould's turkey #Meleagris gallopavo mexicana #abstraction in nature #turkey feathers #iridescence #Santa Rita Lodge #Madera Canyon #Santa Cruz County #Arizona

[jhoffmannphotography]

Calm and Clarity | Gold Lake | Plumas County | California. #yourshotphotographer #natgeotravel #lostsierra #plumascounty #sierranevada #sierra #mountains #mountainlife #lakesbasin #lakelife #wander #wanderer #explore #explorers #reflection #art #artwork #wallart #localartist #wanderingartist #photooftheday #nikon #nikonphotography #nikonusa (at Gold Lake, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkGQuYFLP78/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[plethoraworldatlas]

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife reported late Monday that it has named two new wolf packs that were confirmed in the state last summer.

The newly named wolf families are the Beyem Seyo pack in Plumas County and the Harvey pack in Lassen County. Another of 2023’s newly discovered packs, the Yowlumni pack, ranges in Tulare County and was named in December.

“These awe-inspiring animals continue to show us that California’s wild landscapes are great habitat for wolves and that they’ll find their way here,” said Amaroq Weiss, a senior wolf advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Wolves belong in our state, and we should do everything we can to ensure they thrive.”

The department’s quarterly report covered known wolf information from August through October 2023. It reported that the state has five wolf packs plus several groups of wolves, including new individuals and groups in four northeastern California counties.

The new report noted the continued existence of the Lassen pack in Lassen County, the Whaleback pack in Siskiyou County and a group of two or three wolves in Tehama County. Another group of three wolves was documented ranging in Sierra and Nevada counties, and individual wolves have been sighted in Modoc County. A previously known wolf family in Plumas County, the Beckwourth pack, is thought to no longer exist.

Based on the department’s count, California is currently home to around 45 wolves including adults, yearlings and pups of the year.

The Beyem Seyo pack has at least two adults and six pups; the Harvey pack has at least two adults and one pup; the Lassen pack has a minimum two adults, five yearlings, and three pups; the Whaleback pack is composed of at least two adults, one yearling, and eight pups; the Yowlumni pack consists of two adults and six pups; and the two unnamed groups of wolves include a group of two to three wolves in Tehama County and a group of three wolves in Sierra and Nevada counties.

“I feel so fortunate to bear witness to the return of these top-level carnivores to California,” said Weiss. “Not only are wolves essential to healthy, wild nature, they also have for thousands of years been integral to the human spirit and imagination and a symbol of our connection to the wild.”

Background

The first wolf in nearly a century to make California part of his range was OR-7, a radio-collared wolf from Oregon that entered California in late 2011. OR-7 traveled across seven northeastern counties in California before returning to southwestern Oregon, where he found a mate and settled down, forming the Rogue pack.

Several of OR-7’s offspring have since come to California and established packs. Those include the original breeding male of the Lassen pack and the breeding female of the Yowlumni pack residing in Tulare County. The Shasta pack, California’s first confirmed wolf pack in nearly 100 years, was discovered in 2015 but disappeared a few months later.

#let wolves live #ecology #enviromentalism #california #Department of fish and wildlife #wolves #Repopulation #wolf pack #wolf posts #wolf pup

[californiastatelibrary]

"Ski Racers,” 1907-1914, shows four men tucked and racing down slope on skis in Plumas County, Calif. From our online catalog.

#libraries #history #librarians #california #skiing

[poppiesandpromises]

My mother did not come to

Scatter her son in the places

He grew up and my father

Was already in the lake

I returned to say goodbye

Where we all began

Bits of him live at Bodega

And some in a Plumas

County wood

We wanted him to

Return to all the worlds

In which we loved him

My mother scattered him

In an ocean he had

Never seen—

For her it was never

About him anyway

#poem #poetry #spilled ink #original poetry

[blubushie]

Good luck finding a good lake to wallow in. It really is good for the soul.

Favorite lake? Good at swimming?

Gippsland Lakes.

Saltwater, technically not actually a lake (though there are saltwater lakes there!) but more a series of marshes. Rarely you can see aurorae over the ocean from the beaches, but that's not why I love the area.

This is.

Every few years, if you're very lucky, they become bioluminescent because of blooms of the dinoflaggellate Noctiluca scintillans. And let me tell you, sitting on a glowing beach and watching the aurora makes you feel like you're not on Earth anymore.

Second-favourite lake? The one closest to Dad's place, Lake Berryessa. That's where I'm going today (except I'll be on the backroads in a creek and not at the lake itself because ew, people).

Third-favourite lake? Lake Almanor up in Chester. That's my favourite town in California up in Plumas County. Amazing little place, super close to Lassen Volcanic National Park. Stop by the coffee shop and get a chocolate muffin because they're to die for.

And I'm an incredible swimmer! I've been swimming all my life and I love doing it. I swim, I dive, I've been spearfishing, I've never been surfing but I want to. :]

#blu whos #bushman

[tpeakphotos]

Abies magnifica, more commonly known as Red Fir or Silver Tip Fir is a beautiful conifer that grows at fairly high elevation, generally between 5 and 9 thousand feet. Smaller trees are definitely favored as Christmas trees and when they get larger their bark takes on a reddish brown hue, hence their common name. Wherever they grow large, it’s a sure bet they’ll be the tallest trees in the area with large specimens reaching as high as 250 feet with trunk diameters occasionally exceeding 6 feet.

On this late August day I took a walk through the aptly named Red Fir Nature Trail near Mills Peak in Plumas County California. It was mid-day so some bright sun was making its way through the dense canopy; perfect conditions for near infrared photography. This image was captured using a full spectrum modified camera fitted with an 830 nanometer filter so no visible light was used in its creation.

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Prints and merch on demand: https://buff.ly/4aCmBv7

#original photographers #photographers on tumblr #northern california #original photographic works #original photography on tumblr #fine art photography #plumas county #red fir #woodland #infraredphotography #black and white

[cristinad61]

Aftermath

I’m still trying to find the words to express my feelings after taking a drive last Tuesday up to the west shore of Lake Almanor in Plumas County. Maybe I should have been more prepared for what I saw — the effects of the Dixie Fire, which burned nearly 1 million acres over five California counties from July through October last year. I think that while this wildfire was raging I was distracted…

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#details #Plumas County #trees #wildfire

[pcttrailsidereader]

The Lost Sierra Route

Linking 15 California Mountain Communities Through Trails

In recent years, the sleepy California mountain town of Downieville has become a popular destination for mountain bikers who want to ride the 15+ mile Downieville Downhill. This route begins just north of Sierra Buttes on the old PCT (before the re-route of the PCT around the north side of Sierra Buttes). The region is embracing the success of the Downieville Downhill and proposing an even more ambitious "Lost Sierra Route" which would be open to mountain bikers and moto riders as well as hikers and equestrians.

The Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship is developing a Trails Master Plan for Connected Communities. The Trails Master Plan (TMP) will create a vision for a recreation-focused lifestyle through community investment, shared stewardship, economic opportunity and important new local jobs, all benefiting economically disadvantaged communities in California’s Plumas, Sierra, Butte, Lassen, and Nevada Counties as well as Washoe County, Nevada.

A key component is the proposed “Lost Sierra Route”, which traverses over breathtaking topography, jagged peaks and high alpine meadows similar to the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) and the John Muir Trail (JMT). But unlike the PCT and JMT, this new trans-Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range route allows for all dirt trail travelers including hikers, mountain bikers, moto riders, equestrians, trail runners, hunters, fishermen, wildlife, grandmothers and babies in backpacks. The Lost Sierra Route will be a trail for all to use that will link mountain communities together for recreational adventure and economic sustainability.

It will be interesting to see how such broad multi-use trails function. My own experience is that moto riders are so high impact on trails that it is difficult to imagine them co-existing with hikers, trail runners, grandmothers and babies in backpacks. I also fear the impact of motorized vehicles on the fragile natural space on "high alpine meadows" . . . but perhaps the plan will restrict moto riders to certain sections of the proposed Lost Sierra Route. And lastly, how will the Lost Sierra Route interface with the PCT which passes through some of the same area . . . Sierra City, Truckee, Chester, and Quincy. Stay tuned.

#Lost Sierra Route #Downieville #Sierra Buttes #Sierra City #Chester #Quincy #Truckee

[animalfacthub]

Long-Toed Salamander!

The Long-toed salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum) is found in the North western parts of North America

They e characterised by their adult form having a long forth toe on their hind legs

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📷1: “Western Long-Toed Salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum macrodactylum)” by John P Clare on Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

📷2: “Ambystoma macrodactylum sigillatum, Plumas County, CA.jpg” by Connor Long on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

📷3: “Western Long-Toed Salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum macrodactylum)” by John P Clare on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

#amphibians #amphibian #newts #newt #salamander #animals #facts

[jhoffmannphotography]

A Drop in the Lake | Gold Lake | Plumas County | California. #yourshotphotographer #lostsierra #sierranevada #goldlake #plumascounty #plumas #mountainviews #mountains #mountainlovers #art #artwork #artistsoninstagram #photooftheday #photographer #photographicart #photographic #lake #tahoesnaps #localartist #getoutandexplore #wanderlust (at Gold Lake, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkI9PcMLFkR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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