Robert C. Kirkwood (August 30,1909 –May 5,1964) was an American politician who served as a member of the California State Assembly representing part of Santa Clara County from 1947 until 1953,when he resigned to accept an appointment as California State Controller by Governor Earl Warren. Kirkwood was elected to a full term in 1954,but lost a re-election bid in 1958 to Alan Cranston,who later became a United States senator.
Born in Mountain View,California,Kirkwood married Jean Hazard Gerlinger on August 30,1933. They went on to have four children—two daughters and two sons.
In 1959,Kirkwood was appointed Utilities General Manager of the San Francisco Water Department. He died in San Francisco in 1964. The Water Department named a hydroelectric plant in Alpine County after Kirkwood,and the plant came online in 1967. Also,the Robert C Kirkwood Entrance At Castle Rock State Park opened in August 2019. [1]
Kirkwood's son,Bob Kirkwood,was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the Sierra Nevada Conservancy in 2005.
California is a state in the Western United States,lying on the American Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north,Nevada and Arizona to the east,and an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California to the south. With 39 million residents across an area of 163,696 square miles (423,970 km2),it is the most populous U.S. state,the third-largest by area,and most populated subnational entity in North America. The Greater Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas are the nation's second- and fifth-most populous urban regions,with 19 million and 10 million residents respectively. Los Angeles is the state's most populous city and the nation's second-most,after New York. California's capital,Sacramento,is located in the Central Valley.
Yerba Buena Island sits in San Francisco Bay within the borders of the City and County of San Francisco. The Yerba Buena Tunnel runs through its center and connects the western and eastern spans of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge,linking the city with Oakland,California. Treasure Island is connected by a causeway to Yerba Buena Island. According to the United States Census Bureau,Yerba Buena Island and Treasure Island together have a land area of 0.901 square miles (2.33 km2) with a total population of 2,500 as of the 2010 census.
The Santa Cruz Mountains are a mountain range in central and Northern California,United States,constituting a part of the Pacific Coast Ranges. They form a ridge down the San Francisco Peninsula,south of San Francisco. They separate the Pacific Ocean from the San Francisco Bay and the Santa Clara Valley,and continue south to the Central Coast,bordering Monterey Bay and ending at the Salinas Valley. The range passes through the counties of San Mateo,Santa Clara,and Santa Cruz,with the Pajaro River forming the southern boundary.
Hetch Hetchy is a valley,reservoir,and water system in California in the United States. The glacial Hetch Hetchy Valley lies in the northwestern part of Yosemite National Park and is drained by the Tuolumne River. For thousands of years before the arrival of settlers from the United States in the 1850s,the valley was inhabited by Native Americans who practiced subsistence hunting-gathering.
Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 32nd governor of California from 1959 to 1967. His first elected office was as district attorney for San Francisco,and he was later elected Attorney General of California in 1950,before becoming the state's governor after the 1958 election.
James "Sunny Jim" Rolph Jr. was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party,he was elected to a single term as the 27th governor of California from January 6,1931,until his death on June 2,1934,at the height of the Great Depression. Previously,Rolph had been the 30th mayor of San Francisco from January 8,1912,until his resignation to become governor. Rolph remains the longest-serving mayor in San Francisco history.
Angel Island is an island in San Francisco Bay. The entire island is included within Angel Island State Park,administered by California State Parks. The island,a California Historical Landmark,has been used by humans for a variety of purposes,including seasonal hunting and gathering by indigenous peoples,water and timber supply for European ships,ranching by Mexicans,United States military installations,a United States Public Health Service Quarantine Station,and a U.S. Bureau of Immigration inspection and detention facility. The Angel Island Immigration Station,on the northeast corner of the island,which has been designated a National Historic Landmark,was where officials detained,inspected,and examined approximately one million immigrants,who primarily came from Asia. Under the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882,the first United States law to restrict a group of immigrants based on their race,nationality,and class,all arriving Chinese immigrants were to be examined by immigration or customs agents.
Big Basin Redwoods State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of California,located in Santa Cruz County,about 36 km (22 mi) northwest of Santa Cruz. The park contains almost all of the Waddell Creek watershed,which was formed by the seismic uplift of its rim,and the erosion of its center by the many streams in its bowl-shaped depression.
Castle Rock State Park is a 5,242-acre (2,121 ha) state park of California,United States,located along the crest of the Santa Cruz Mountains and almost entirely in Santa Cruz County,with parts extending into Santa Clara County and San Mateo County. It embraces coast redwood,Douglas fir,and madrone forest,most of which has been left in its wild,natural state. Steep canyons are sprinkled with unusual rock formations that are a popular rock climbing area. The park is named after a sandstone formation called Castle Rock. The forest here is lush and mossy,crisscrossed by 32 miles (51 km) of hiking trails. These trails are part of an even more extensive trail system that links the Santa Clara and San Lorenzo valleys with Castle Rock State Park,Big Basin Redwoods State Park,and the Pacific Coast. Due to its overnight parking lot,Castle Rock is a popular starting point for the Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail,a 30-mile (48 km) trail that begins near by at Saratoga Gap and leads to Waddell Beach north of Santa Cruz. There are two walk-in campgrounds within the park for overnight backpacking.
The San Lorenzo River is a 29.3-mile-long (47.2 km) river in the U.S. state of California. The name San Lorenzo derives from the Spanish language for "Saint Lawrence" due to its reported sighting on that saint's feast day by Spanish explorers. Its headwaters originate in Castle Rock State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains and flow south by southeast through the San Lorenzo Valley before passing through Santa Cruz and emptying into Monterey Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
Glen Canyon Park is a city park in San Francisco,California. It occupies about 70 acres (28 ha) along a deep canyon adjacent to the Glen Park,Diamond Heights,and Miraloma Park neighborhoods. O'Shaughnessy Hollow is a rugged,undeveloped 3.6 acres (1.5 ha) tract of parkland that lies immediately to the west and may be considered an extension of Glen Canyon Park.
The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) is part of the California Natural Resources Agency and is responsible for the management and regulation of the State of California's water usage. The department was created in 1956 by Governor Goodwin Knight following severe flooding across Northern California in 1955,where they combined the Division of Water Resources of the Department of Public Works with the State Engineer's Office,the Water Project Authority,and the State Water Resources Board. It is headquartered in Sacramento.
Sempervirens Fund,originally established in 1900 as Sempervirens Club,is California's oldest land trust. Founder Andrew P. Hill’s goal was to preserve the old-growth forest that became Big Basin Redwoods State Park,the first California state park in 1902. Sempervirens Fund's mission is to protect and permanently preserve coast redwood forests,wildlife habitat,watersheds,and other important natural features of California's Santa Cruz Mountains,and to encourage people to appreciate and enjoy this environment. Sempervirens Fund does this by purchasing land for protection and transferring it to state or local agencies. Sempervirens Fund has also worked to establish conservation easements and trail linkages between parks and coastal marine preserves. As of 2013,Sempervirens Fund has saved more than 34,000 acres of redwood lands.
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Andrew Putnam Hill was a Californian painter and photographer best known for successfully leading an effort from 1899 to 1902 to save a forest of large redwoods in Big Basin,California,as a public park,the first in what became the California State Park System.
Trione-Annadel State Park is a state park of California in the United States. It is situated at the northern edge of Sonoma Valley and is adjacent to Spring Lake Regional Park in Santa Rosa. It offers many recreational activities within its 5,092-acre (2,061 ha) property.
The San Lorenzo Valley is in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Santa Cruz County,California and was once a logging industry center of California especially during the rebuilding of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. Now it is home to over 35,000 people. Home to millions of Sequoia sempervirens,or redwood trees,the valley includes the census designated places of Ben Lomond,Felton,Brookdale and Boulder Creek,which lie along the winding,two-lane and outer areas of the valley and Highway 9.
Redwood Creek is a 9.5-mile-long (15.3 km) perennial stream located in San Mateo County,California,United States which discharges into South San Francisco Bay. The Port of Redwood City,the largest deepwater port in South San Francisco Bay,is situated on the east bank of Redwood Creek near its mouth,where the creek becomes a natural deepwater channel.
Sequoia sempervirens is the sole living species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family Cupressaceae. Common names include coast redwood,coastal redwood and California redwood. It is an evergreen,long-lived,monoecious tree living 1,200–2,200 years or more. This species includes the tallest living trees on Earth,reaching up to 115.9 m (380.1 ft) in height and up to 8.9 m (29 ft) in diameter at breast height. These trees are also among the longest-living trees on Earth. Before commercial logging and clearing began by the 1850s,this massive tree occurred naturally in an estimated 810,000 ha along much of coastal California and the southwestern corner of coastal Oregon within the United States.
Bob Kirkwood was an American environmentalist and businessman. Kirkwood was born in San Francisco,California,on June 17,1939,the eldest son of California politician Robert C. Kirkwood.