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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A range of southern California extending from east to west between the Sierra Nevada and the Coast Ranges north of Los Angeles.
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Part of the fire in the eastern foothills of the Tehachapi Mountains, about 70 miles north of Los Angeles, was sending up a large plume of smoke, while other areas only smoldered.
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Mr. Newsom acknowledged his obstacles winning votes south of the Tehachapi Mountains, where most of California's 38 million people live.
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They have purloined water and dammed it, held it in 1,200 reservoirs and funneled it down aqueducts from northern rivers, pumped it 3,000 feet over the Tehachapi Mountains to the parched basins of the south (map) and piped it onto fields growing monsoon-climate crops.
The Long, Dry Winter 2008
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This was part of the Mayor's recent announcement about Pine Tree, a renewable energy source wind farm located in the Tehachapi Mountains.
Paige Donner: Greening Hollywood Gets The DL on Wind, Water and Renewable Energy for L.A. 2008
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Wind tunnel modeling of the Tehachapi Mountains shows air currents often swirl and don't follow a linear path, something that makes it trickier to predict the output of the 4,200 megawatts of turbines expected to be built there in the next five years.
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California is developing a 4,500-megawatt wind farm complex in the Tehachapi Mountains northwest of Los Angeles.
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In California, there are plans to more than double wind capacity in the next few years once $1.8 billion in transmission upgrades are completed in the Tehachapi Mountains, which separate the northern and southern parts of the state.
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Most people would recognize the area as a gas stop along interstate 5 leading north from Los Angeles over the Tehachapi Mountains.
Spinning creationism back into the classroom - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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The heart of their range is northeast of here in the Tehachapi Mountains and the Antelope Valley where State Parks owns the California Poppy Reserve.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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The heart of their range is northeast of here in the Tehachapi Mountains and the Antelope Valley where State Parks owns the California Poppy Reserve.
Spring Poppies 2006
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