Out the window, at eye level, the Coast Range is still hung with a tattered lace of snow in late July.
Even against this backdrop, the Alvord is extraordinarily dry, sitting in a triple rain shadow created by the Coast Range, the Cascades and Steens Mountain.
Over the coast range, up and down the shore, the evening was a pea souper, the mini-fjords at the mouths of the Navarro and Albion rivers glimpsed through gauze.
We are far enough up the coast to be out of range of hurricanes, but close enough to the urban centers of the northeast, where 18% of the U.S. population lives, for there to be an efficient market for the excess energy we can produce.
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The tundra transformation took place in a pristine stretch between the Brooks Range and the Arctic coast, marked by few human or natural disturbances.
Even if others are keen on a field, however huge, in pristine jungle nearly 500 kilometres and a mountain range from the populated coast, new bids would take time: Perupetro, the state oil firm, says it would take the rest of 1998 to prepare bidding specifications, under the government's new plan to divide the deal into three: operation of the field, the main pipelines, and distribution.
South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin told a parliamentary committee in Seoul that the North has moved a medium-range missile to its East coast for an imminent test firing or military drill, according to the semi-official South Korean news agency Yonhap.
In May, the firm knocked out a number of UAVs at the US Navy test range on San Nicolas Island off the coast of California.
The US and North Korea's neighbours fear Pyongyang's ultimate goal is to put a nuclear warhead on a long-range missile that could target the west coast of the US, but it is not believed to have mastered the technology yet.
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Now, imagine a hundred thousand of them sitting on mud nest, each just outside of pecking range of its neighbor, stretching along the coast as far as you can see.
Virgin Trains, which runs services on the West Coast mainline, told the BBC there was a "wider range of value fares than ever before" on their services.
Within a matter of weeks, Milton Berle's "Texaco Star Theater, " previously known only to those who lived within range of one of NBC's nine East Coast affiliates, was being viewed in 24 cities by an audience of almost 4.5 million.
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But my favorite cartographic error is the Mountains of Kong, a range that supposedly stretched like a belt from the west coast of Africa through half the continent.
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And while Virgin is often cited as the most expensive operator in the country Smith says that the average price paid for a ticket on the West Coast line has actually fallen in the last decade due to the range of discounts available.
Creighton has made 9.3 baskets from 3-point range per game, an average that ranks behind only Florida Gulf Coast (9.4).
Dagestan adjoins Chechnya, lies at the eastern extremity of the Caucasus mountain range, and the Dagestani capital, Makhachkala, sits on the Caspian coast.
The death of a soldier from a stray bullet at a firing range was a "rare and isolated tragic incident", the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority (PCNPA) says.
The U.S. Coast Guard inspects each cruise ship that docks in the U.S. every year for a range of issues, from operation of backup generators to the lifeboats.
The party debated a wide range of issues over the weekend, from the development of wave energy off the west coast of Scotland to a call for the War Crimes Commission for the former Yugoslavia to report on the feasibility of prosecuting KLA leaders.
Bangor also routinely does fuel stops for corporate jets that don't have the range to make it from Europe to points in the U.S. beyond the East Coast.
The Ventura County blaze, which was expected to reach the Pacific Ocean, crossed the scenic Pacific Coast Highway that separates the Santa Monica Mountains from the sea, and small fires damaged a military firing range, a Navy spokeswoman said.
The re-instituted missile ground-based system plan will put 14 more long-range interceptors in Fort Greely, Alaska by 2017 to supplement the 30 already existing on the West Coast.
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