Cow Mountain
Cow Mountain is a ridge in the Mayacamas Mountains in Lake County, California and Mendocino County, California. It is home to two large recreation areas. One is closed to off-road vehicles and the other is not. Erosion from the mountain, caused in part by human land use, contributes sediment and nutrients to Clear Lake. Location Cow Mountain is in the Mayacamas Mountains, part of the northern California Coast Ranges. It is east of the city of Ukiah and west of the city of Lakeport. It is in Lake and Mendocino counties. Cow Mountain got its name from longhorn cattle introduced around 1839 by Salvador Vallejo and later ranched by Ben Kelsey and Andrew Kelsey, which left many rogue cattle roaming the countryside. When settlers arrived in the land around Clear Lake about 1853 they did not want the long horn cattle to breed with their exotic cattle bred for meat prooduction, so began a program of shooting the long horns. Cow Mountain was one of the last refuges for the longhor ...
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Elk Mountain (California)
Elk Mountain is a high mountain in Lake County, California, United States. Physical Elk Mountain is in the Northern California Coast Ranges. It has an elevation of , with a clean prominence of and an isolation of from Horse Mountain (California), Horse Mountain. It is in Mendocino National Forest in Lake County, California. It drains into the Sacramento River. The mountain is to the north of the point where the east and west forks of Middle Creek (Lake County, California), Middle Creek converge. Elk Mountain Road Elk Mountain is about north of Upper Lake, California. Elk Mountain Road runs from Upper Lake north to Lake Pillsbury on Eel River (California), Eel River. It passes about to the east of Elk Mountain. The Elk Mountain Road (National Forest Route M1) is a dirt road that is the main access route into the Mendocino National Forest. Recreation Elk Mountain is used for hang-gliding and paragliding. The launch site is reached by a rough and steep dirt road about long. ...
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