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George Bird Grinnell studied the landscape of the Northern Plains. While doing so, he developed a positive relationship with the Native Americans. Grinnell participated in the last great hunt with the Pawnee tribe. Grinnell went on an expedition to Yellowstone with William Ludlow. During his time in Yellowstone, he documented poaching of buffalo, deer, elk, and antelope for their hide. Grinnell wrote articles to help spread the awareness of the conservation of buffalo. Grinnell later played a large role in establishing Glacier National Park in 1910. Grinnell’s passionate for buffalos led him to starting the movement for buffalo conservation. Grinnell advocated for laws which passed to stop poachers from killing off the buffalo in Yellowstone Park. Grinnell was the editor of Forest and Stream and also a photographer in the Northern Plains region. He documented all types of animals, yet buffalos remained his passion.

The northwestern Monterey County has a mediterranean climate with warm and dry summers, and the climate is wet and mild in the winter time. As far as precipitation, there is about sixteen inches of rainfall a year, and ninety percent of the rainfall occurs between November and April. During the summer and fall there is a southeast wind current, and the rest of the year a northwest wind current.

The water quality in the Salinas River is altered by surface-water diversion, groundwater pumping, diking and drainage of wetlands, agriculture, and contamination from industrial point sources and from urban runoff. The flow altercation disrupts the balance of salt in the water. But, the biggest threat to the water quality is the nutrients and pesticides from the agricultural land upstream. The excess nutrients causes eutrophication, and this produces excess algae or mortality in the organisms. The pesticides in the area comprise of DDT, toxaphene, dieldrin, endrin, aldrin, and endosulfan. These pesticides caused various problems in wildlife such as: “widespread mortality resulting from spills, reproductive failure caused by bioaccumulation, behavioral and physiological problems, decreased food consumption, and increased susceptibility to predation and cold”.

The refuge is located on the California Coast Ranges known as Salina. Basement rocks are located along the coast and are between sixty-five to two hundred and forty-five million years old. This making the rocks classify as Mesozoic. Salinas River National Wildlife Refuge reports, “Uplift of the Coast Range probably began no earlier than about 5–8 million years ago, and uplift of some parts of the range has continued into the past 2 million years.” Strike lift tectonics are active in the region due to the San Andreas fault system. Salina is bounded by the landward side of the San Andreas fault. On the oceanward side lay the San Gregorio-Hosgri fault system. The San Gregorio-Hosgri fault system is, “a geologic orphan, sliced off of rocks to the south and slid into its current location by large-scale translation along the San Andreas fault.” Basement rocks usually underlain the adjacent Coast Ranges, but Salina is distinguished by a basement assemblage of plutonic and metamorphic rock. The crystalline basement is overlain by terrestrial and marine sedimentary strata which range from twenty-three million years to 1.6 million years of age. This means the terrestrial and marine sedimentary strata ranges from Miocene to Pliocene. The majority of the Refuge is located of inactive dune deposits that are 1.6 million to ten thousand years old. This classifying the dune deposits as being of Pleistocene age. The Refuge also is situated on active coastal deposits and on active alluvium of the Salinas River Floodplain.

PEER REVIEW 1) The article does not have well formatted section headers and wikilinks. It does have sources but the sources do not take the viewer to another page. There are many words however, that can be linked to other pages like mountain ranges, rivers and parks. 2) The footnotes look good it seems like he has the right ones and in the right places. 3) I think that to improve the content of the article Will could re word some of his sentences and go over his sources, I think he could use a couple more.