Sen. Boxer Moves to Elevate Pinnacles National Monument to National Park Status
The landscape of Central California is some of the most sublime in the nation, especially in early spring when the hills and valleys are equally green and lush with new grass and colorful poppies from winter rains. However pleasant, the placid oak tree-dotted landscape is also deceptive, and does nothing to prepare you for the jarring change of scenery and outright primeval weirdness upon entering Pinnacles National Monument.
Earthquake Country
The author of dozens and books and papers on seismology, Dr. Pat Abbott, Professor Emeritus at San Diego State University, discusses Southern California’s most dangerous seismic regions and faultlines, including the southern San Andreas, San Jacinto, and Elsinore Faults, and the history of the 1812 and 1857 Southern California earthquakes.
