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Salmon Mountains

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Elevation
  
2,726 m (8,944 ft)

State
  
California

Topo map
  
USGS Thompson Peak

Country
  
United States

District
  
Siskiyou County

Salmon Mountains

Region
  
Shasta-Trinity National Forest & Six Rivers National Forest

The Salmon Mountains are a mountain range in Siskiyou County, northwestern California.

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GeographyEdit

The Salmon Mountains are a sub-mountain range within the Klamath Mountains System. The Klamath system are of the Pacific Coast Ranges series of mountain range systems that stretch along the West Coast of North America..

The Salmon range is within sections of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest and Six Rivers National Forest.

The Yurock and Hoopa Valley Indian Reservations are to the west. California State Route 299 runs along the south of the range.

EcologyEdit

Ecoregion

The Salmon Mountains are within the Klamath-Siskiyou forests — Klamath Mountains ecoregion, which is part of the Temperate coniferous forests Biome.

Flora

Plant communities in the range include:

  • California mixed evergreen forest
  • Cedar hemlock douglas-fir forest
  • References

    Salmon Mountains Wikipedia