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Places, Earth
Kern County
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State Parks, Historic Sites, and Museums need your help.
Throughout the country, important state parks, historic sites, homes, buildings, and museums are in trouble. Because of the recent rise in gasoline prices and the general world-wide financial collapse, state parks, historic sites, and museums are in danger of closing. Some are being forced to sell off artifacts and property. Most operate on a thin margin and will not weather these hard times without your help.
Places Earth recently encountered closed state parks in Arizona and California is threatening to close all state parks. The story is similar throughout the country.
Places Earth urges everyone to support these vital and important public resources any way you can. Please find a worthy local or distant historic site or museum that is in financial danger and donate your treasure, time, and talent. Write to your governor and other elected officials telling them to find a way to keep these parks open. It will be your loss.
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Kern County is a varied place. Inclosing the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley with its rich agricultural lands, sharing the western border with San Luis Obispo County including parts of the Carrizo Plain, the Coastal Range, and oil fields, sharing the eastern border with San Bernardino County including parts of the Mojave Desert and Edwards Air Force Base where the Space Shuttle once landed, sharing the southern border with Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, and sharing the northern border with Kings, Tulare, and Inyo Counties, Kern County has a lot to offer. Other natural wonders include Red Rock Canyon State Park, the Kern River, and parts of Sequoia National Forest. Museums and historic sites range from the Borax Visitor Center, Buena Vista Museum Of Natural History, Fort Tejon State Historic Park, Kern County Museum, Maturango Museum, Shafter Depot, Twenty Mule Team Museum, and West Kern Oil Museum. Bakersfield is the largest city beside Highway 99. Other major highways are Interstate 5, Highway 14, and Highway 58. Railroads cris-cross the county including a famous loop where the railroad climbs the mountains around Tehachapi.
To everything, Kern, Kern, Kern. There is a season, Kern, Kern, Kern.
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This page last updated: Tuesday, 17-Nov-2009 09:41:23 CST
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Note: This is not the official site for any of the places shown in Places Earth. Places Earth is not responsible for accuracy of the information. Hours of operations, prices, exhibits, and sometimes locations are subject to change without notice.
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This web site started because of my love for Architecture and interest in History. This web site is for your benefit and I make no profit on it. I don't allow paid advertising. This site is supported primarily from my regular paycheck as a Set Designer and there haven' been many this year. My wife sells Gold Canyon products at www.valleygirlcandles.com and I sell art at www.klimages.com. A non-tax deductable donation to help cover the cost of operating this web site may be made to Kesign Design Consulting through PayPal ...
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