Seigler Mountain is a mountain in the
Mayacamas Mountains
The Mayacamas Mountains are located in northwestern California in the United States. The mountain range is part of the Northern Inner Coast Ranges, of the California Coast Ranges System.
Geography
The Mayacamas Mountains are located south of the ...
of the Northern
California Coast Ranges
The Coast Ranges of California span from Del Norte or Humboldt County, California, south to Santa Barbara County. The other three coastal California mountain ranges are the Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges and the Klamath Mountains.
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It is in
Lake County, California
Lake County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 68,163. The county seat is Lakeport. The county takes its name from Clear Lake, the dominant geographic fe ...
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Name
The mountain is named after Thomas Seigler, who discovered the
Seigler Springs to the east of the mountain, where a resort grew up by the 1870s.
Physical
The mountain is in Lake County, California.
It has an elevation of .
Clean prominence is .
Isolation is .
The nearest higher neighbor is
Mount Hannah to the WNW.
Location
Seigler Mountain is one of the mountains in the Cobb Mountain Area, which have a volcanic origin.
Others are
Cobb Mountain
Cobb Mountain is the tallest mountain in the Mayacamas Mountains of California.
Location
Cobb Mountain's main summit is located in Lake County, west of the town of Cobb. Like nearby Mount Saint Helena, Cobb Mountain is tall enough to receiv ...
, the most dominant,
Mount Hannah and
Boggs Mountain
Boggs Mountain is a mountain the Mayacamas Mountains in Lake County, California. Part of the mountain holds the Boggs Mountain Demonstration State Forest. About 80% of the trees were burned in the September 2015 Valley Fire.
Name
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There are isolated small valleys and basins between the mountain peaks.
Seigler Mountain is separated from Mount Hannah by Salminas Basin, a large mountain meadow with an unusual complex of wetlands that feeds Cole Creek.
Flows of porphyritic lavas from Mount Hannah and Seigler Mountain cover about .
The mountain was volcanically active 600,000 years ago, and flows from the mountain overlaid white bedded tuff to the north of
Howard Springs.
Ecology
A delimitation survey published in 2020 found that Seigler Mountain was infested by
Mediterranean oak borers (''Xyleborus monographus''), a type of non-native invasive beetle that mainly attacks oak species.
In California it most often attacks
valley oak
''Quercus lobata'', commonly called the valley oak or roble, grows into the largest of California oaks. It is endemic to California, growing in interior valleys and foothills from Siskiyou County to San Diego County. Mature specimens may attain a ...
, and less often attacks
blue oak
''Quercus douglasii'', known as blue oak, is a species of oak endemic to (and found only in) California, common in the Coast Ranges and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. It is California's most drought-tolerant deciduous oak, and is a dominan ...
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Mountains of Lake County, California
Mayacamas Mountains