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Castle Crags Wilderness, the Glossary

The Castle Crags Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Castle Crags rock formations of the Trinity Mountains, and within the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, in northwestern California.^[1]

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Trinity Mountains (California)

Achillea millefolium

Achillea millefolium, commonly known as yarrow or common yarrow, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.

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American black bear

The American black bear (Ursus americanus), also known as the black bear, is a species of medium-sized bear endemic to North America.

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Aster (genus)

Aster is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.

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Battle of Castle Crags

Castle Crags in Castle Crags Wilderness Battle Rock is a historical site of the Battle of the Crags at Castle Crags in Castella, California in Shasta County.

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Bobcat

The bobcat (Lynx rufus), also known as the red lynx, is one of the four extant species within the medium-sized wild cat genus Lynx.

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Buckwheat

Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) or common buckwheat is a flowering plant in the knotweed family Polygonaceae cultivated for its grain-like seeds and as a cover crop.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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California Wilderness Act of 1984

The California Wilderness Act of 1984 is a federal law (Public Law 98-425), passed by the United States Congress on September 28, 1984, that authorized the addition of over within the state of California to the National Wilderness Preservation System.

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Castle Crags

Castle Crags is a dramatic and well-known rock formation in Northern California. Castle Crags Wilderness and Castle Crags are Shasta-Trinity National Forest and Trinity Mountains (California).

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Ceanothus cordulatus

Ceanothus cordulatus is a species of shrub in the family Rhamnaceae known by the common names mountain whitethorn and whitethorn ceanothus.

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Chaparral

Chaparral is a shrubland plant community found primarily in California, in southern Oregon and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico.

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Cirque

A (from the Latin word) is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion.

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Cornus nuttallii

Cornus nuttallii, the Pacific dogwood, western dogwood, or mountain dogwood, is a species of dogwood tree native to western North America.

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Cougar

The cougar (Puma concolor) (KOO-gər), also known as the panther, mountain lion, catamount and puma, is a large cat native to the Americas.

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Coyote

The coyote (Canis latrans), also known as the American jackal, prairie wolf, or brush wolf is a species of canine native to North America.

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Darmera

Darmera peltata, the Indian rhubarb or umbrella plant, is a flowering plant, the only species within the genus Darmera in the family Saxifragaceae.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Exfoliation joint

Exfoliation joints or sheet joints are surface-parallel fracture systems in rock, often leading to the erosion of concentric slabs.

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Jacob Blanck

Jacob Nathaniel Blanck (November 10, 1906December 23, 1974) was an American bibliographer, editor, and children's writer.

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Klamath Mountains

The Klamath Mountains are a rugged and lightly-populated mountain range in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon in the western United States.

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Leave No Trace

Leave No Trace, sometimes written as LNT, is a set of ethics promoting conservation of the outdoors.

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Lilium columbianum

Lilium columbianum is a lily native to western North America.

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Manzanita

Manzanita is a common name for many species of the genus Arctostaphylos.

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Mimulus

Mimulus, also known as monkeyflowers, is a plant genus in the family Phrymaceae, which was traditionally placed in family Scrophulariaceae.

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Modoc War

The Modoc War, or the Modoc Campaign (also known as the Lava Beds War), was an armed conflict between the Native American Modoc people and the United States Army in northeastern California and southeastern Oregon from 1872 to 1873.

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Mount Shasta

Mount Shasta (Shasta: Waka-nunee-Tuki-wuki; Karuk: Úytaahkoo) is a potentially active volcano at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California. Castle Crags Wilderness and Mount Shasta are Shasta-Trinity National Forest.

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Mount Shasta, California

Mount Shasta (also known as Mount Shasta City) is a city in Siskiyou County, California, United States, at about above sea level on the flanks of Mount Shasta, a prominent northern California landmark.

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National Wilderness Preservation System

The National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS) of the United States protects federally managed wilderness areas designated for preservation in their natural condition.

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Pacific Crest Trail

The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), officially designated as the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, is a long-distance hiking and equestrian trail closely aligned with the highest portion of the Cascade and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges, which lie east of the U.S. Pacific coast.

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Poison oak

Poison oak refers to two plant species in the genus Toxicodendron, both of which can cause skin irritation.

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Potentilla

Potentilla is a genus containing over 500 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae.

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Rattlesnake

Rattlesnakes are venomous snakes that form the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the subfamily Crotalinae (the pit vipers).

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Redding, California

Redding is the county seat of Shasta County, California, and the economic and cultural capital of the Shasta Cascade region of Northern California.

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Riparian zone

A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream.

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Roadless area conservation

Roadless area conservation is a conservation policy limiting road construction and the resulting environmental impact on designated areas of public land.

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Sacramento River

The Sacramento River (Río Sacramento) is the principal river of Northern California in the United States and is the largest river in California. Castle Crags Wilderness and Sacramento River are Shasta-Trinity National Forest.

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Shasta County, California

Shasta County, officially the County of Shasta, is a county located in the northern portion of the U.S. state of California.

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Shasta–Trinity National Forest

The Shasta–Trinity National Forest is a federally designated forest in northern California, United States. Castle Crags Wilderness and Shasta–Trinity National Forest are Shasta-Trinity National Forest.

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Siskiyou County, California

Siskiyou County is a county located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of California.

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Spring (hydrology)

A spring is a natural exit point at which groundwater emerges from the aquifer and flows onto the top of the Earth's crust (pedosphere) to become surface water.

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Sunset (magazine)

Sunset is a lifestyle magazine in the United States.

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Trinity Mountains

The Trinity Mountains are a subrange of the Klamath Mountains, one of the ranges within the California Coast Ranges and part the greater Pacific Coast Ranges, the coastal mountain system extending from Mexico to Alaska. Castle Crags Wilderness and Trinity Mountains are Shasta-Trinity National Forest and Trinity Mountains (California).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Crags_Wilderness

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Trinity Mountains (California)

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