North and South America. This map, drawn in 1540 by by Sebastian Münster, was the very first printed map that called the great body of water to the west of the land by the name Pacific.

The maps, of course, depict a mistake: They show California as an island off the coast of North America, reflecting the beliefs of some explorers and cartographers from the 17th and 18th centuries.

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It’s the most detailed map of its kind so far. Animals like the black-footed ferret and California condor are represented, but so are groups often left out of such analyses: species of bees ...

One of the most widespread misconceptions in the 16th century involved an area of the mostly unexplored continent of North America, a place called California, which mapmakers often portrayed as an ...

When all of the West is on fire at once, this is who deals with it. A command center in Boise is responsible for deploying America’s strained firefighting resources as more than 100 wildfires ...

Dana's Strands Beach was my first stop on my West Coast visit. I stayed in South Laguna, California, for 12 days to see a friend, and her stories of the beach made me need to visit as soon as I could.

In this episode of Repowering the West, L.A. Times energy reporter Sammy Roth visits the construction site of America’s largest wind farm, and follows the path of the 732-mile power line that ...

A USEFUL map, embodying the latest information, of Mexico, Central America and the West Indies on a scale of 90 miles to an inch is published by the National Geographic Society at Washington. It ...

Brightline West is a new all-electric, 218-mile rail line traversing two states and a map shared by the rail line shows its route between two major cities in the U.S. southwest.

Los Angeles Equestrian Center- 480 W. Riverside Drive, Burbank, California, 91506 Pierce College Equestrian Center - 7100 El Rancho Drive, Woodland Hills, California, 91367 ...