Talk:Mayacamas Mountains

Initial assessment in proj calif
stub by dent of length. Importance stems from very visible range of mountains separating two very high name recognition and visited valleys: Sonoma Valley and Napa Valley. Anlace 20:02, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Typo in title
It's Mayacamas, not "Mayacmas". How do we correct the typo in the title of this article? --Mukrkrgsj 08:34, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * i have corrected this. i am glad i wasnt the article creator, but should have caught this earlier. the other spelling is an alternative spelling but not as common. thanks mukrkrgs. Anlace 14:34, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Typo in title again
The USGS has the range named "Mayacmas" and my understanding is that this name should be the authoritative one. I have not changed the article title or in-text references, but I would like someone with more knowledge about naming conventions to look at this. Yerrik 26 February 2014

I went ahead and made the clarification in the Names section. Both names are in common use. The 1850 Statute uses the spelling Mayacmas to define the boundary of Sonoma County. The current Statute uses Mayacamas. The Board of Geographic Names has Mayacmas with Mayacamas as an alternate spelling. Pixpixpix (talk) 04:57, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Prehistoric vegetation
Regarding the point about vegetation differences in prehistoric times: The Mayacama Mountains are probably only a few million years old (related to fault activity on San Andreas family of faults). I am guessing that you meant to say ten thousand years ago, not ten million. There should have been vegetation differences as recently as 10,000 ybp due to climate changes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.51.154.217 (talk) 19:28, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Mayacamas vs Mayacmas Mountains
Note on pronunciation and naming: The USGS naming "Mayacmas' certainly isn't a typo and is definitive, though many variations have been used over the years. The official spelling is a clue of the original pronunciation. The Wappo village namesake was Maiya'kma. The official name is Mayacmas. The current pronunciation with the emphasis Maya-CAHM-us places the emphasis on a vowel that was never there in most of the iterations of the name. My family has maintained a homestead in this range for 130 years, so I am reasonably confident based on family history as well as other sources. There was a article some years ago in the Press Democrat about older residents complaining of the change in pronunciation. I recognize that citation is required to be officially included, but thought some mention was warranted.24.4.239.241 (talk) 17:19, 8 September 2020 (UTC)