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    The Chumash Wilderness is a 38,150 acres (15,440 ha) wilderness area within the southern Los Padres National Forest. It is located in the Transverse Ranges...
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  • up Chumash in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chumash may refer to: Chumash (Judaism), a Hebrew word for the Pentateuch, used in Judaism Chumash people...
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    the wilderness area. Nearby wilderness areas of the southern Los Padres National Forest include the Matilija Wilderness (west) and Chumash Wilderness (northwest)...
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    National Forest Road S349S. The trail continues to the west entering the Chumash Wilderness and ends at Cerro Noroeste. Almost all of this 6-mile (9.7 km) trail...
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    Chumash rock art is a genre of paintings on caves, mountains, cliffs, or other living rock surfaces, created by the Chumash people of Southern California...
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    inaccessible wilderness remaining in southern California. Most of this land is in the Los Padres National Forest, and includes the Chumash Wilderness in the...
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  • same legislation also established the Chumash, Machesna Mountain, Matilija, Sespe, and Silver Peak Wilderness areas. It is named for the mountain it...
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    and Ventura counties in California. The mountain is located in the Chumash Wilderness and its summit is the highest point in Kern County and the second...
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    Ranger District) Chumash Wilderness (38,150 acres (154 km2) in the Mt. Pinos Ranger District, just west of Mount Pinos) Sespe Wilderness (219,700 acres...
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    Control Center, from whom he received advisories while flying over the Chumash Wilderness area. The NTSB interviewed two witnesses of the flight, who were in...
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  • feet (2,617 m). The summit is in Kern County. The mountain is in the Chumash Wilderness which is administered by the Los Padres National Forest. "Grouse Mountain...
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    uplifted to its dominant position, overshadowing western Conejo Valley. The Chumash Native Americans have a long and deeply spiritual history of interaction...
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  • The National Wilderness Preservation System includes 806 wilderness areas protecting 111,889,002 acres (174,826.566 sq mi; 452,798.73 km2) of federal land...
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    (although the Sespe Wilderness includes a small portion of the Angeles National Forest ): Sespe Wilderness - 219,700 acres Chumash Wilderness - 38,150 acres...
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  • the wilderness. The name "Matilija" is derived from "Mat'ilha", a Ventureño Chumash village once located somewhere in today's Matilija Wilderness. The...
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  • It is surrounded by the Chumash Wilderness to the south and west, though the peak itself is not actually within the wilderness (since it is approached...
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    Painted Rock (San Luis Obispo County, California) (category Rock art of the Chumash people)
    interior of the rock alcove is adorned with many pictographs created by the Chumash, Salinan and Yokuts peoples over many thousands of years. In recent times...
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    which comprise the park are: Santa Cruz Island (Spanish: Isla Santa Cruz, Chumash: Limuw) is the largest island in California and largest of the eight islands...
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    portreros, which contained pictographs from the Chumash Indians, it took a long time for the wilderness designation. In 1992, after the passage of the...
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    the Cuyama River about 66 miles (106 km) from its headwaters in the Chumash Wilderness Area. About 7 miles (11 km) below the dam, outflow joins the Sisquoc...
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    the Chumash word kuyam, meaning "clam" or "freshwater mollusk". The Cuyama River's source is in San Emigdio Mountains, within the Chumash Wilderness area...
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    The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary is a National Marine Sanctuary in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara...
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    Sespe Creek (Chumash: S'eqp'e', "Kneecap") is a stream, some 61 miles (98 km) long, in Ventura County, southern California, in the Western United States...
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  • the Chumash culture for at least the past 6,000, 7,000, 8,000, or perhaps 10,000 years. The Newbury Park area was previously the site of three Chumash villages:...
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  • Satwiwa (category Chumash)
    Satwiwa (Chumash: "the bluffs") was a former Chumash village in the Santa Monica Mountains of Newbury Park, California. The current Satwiwa Native American...
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    instrumental in establishing the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. The Chumash Native Americans, and later the Tongva, lived on the islands from around...
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    079 m)). The Sierra Madre lies in the region historically inhabited by the Chumash people, who used sites in the mountains for sacred ceremonies and rites...
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  • Thumbnail for Pinnacles National Park
    the National Park Service and the majority of the park is protected as wilderness. The national park is divided by the rock formations into East and West...
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    Elfin Forest Natural Area (category Chumash)
    and the diverse bird species in the estuary. In pre-Columbian times, the Chumash people had a significant settlement now named Los Osos Back Bay on a stabilized...
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    Sespe wilderness to the southeast). The region has been continuously inhabited by humans for over 10,000 years. Rock art by the resident Chumash Indians...
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