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Mother-Natutre Blessed Marin County

So, has Mother-Nature really blessed Marin County? Yes, of course Mother-Nature blessed Marin County. Marin County is a south-facing peninsula in Northern California that is framed in on the north by Sonoma and Napa wine country, on the west by the Pacific Ocean and its rocky beaches, on the south by the stately Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco Bay and on the east by the San Pablo Bay which is often shrouded in fog. If that is not considered being blessed by Mother-Nature, what is?

Due to the fact that Marin County is surrounded by two large and influential bodies of water and because of heavy winter precipitation, its winters are somewhat warmer than they are in its neighboring counties. For those same reasons, however, Marin County is also blessed with cool weather during the summer and spring with literally no heat waves, particularly along its coast. According to the Census Bureau of the United States, Marin County has a total area of 828 square miles; 520 square miles of it is dry land while 308 square miles of it water.

Topographically, Marin County displays a remarkable landscape of lush and sprawling pasturelands, tidal flats along its coastline and the towering Mount Tamalpais, the county’s tallest mountain reaching a height of 2,600 feet.

Nature favored Marin County with its best panoramic views of luxuriant emerald-green farmlands, vivid tidal flats and Mount Tamalpais presiding over the entire spectrum from its height of 2,600 feet.

Just as the very volatile and unpredictable San Andreas earthquake fault is constantly threatening Marin County’s stability, it has over the course of hundreds of decades shaped the County into the assortment of rolling hills, flat land masses, high mountains and ocean front boulders that it displays today. In addition, the never ending activities of the San Andreas earthquake fault have through the ages deposited a wide variety of soils each of which is fertile and enriched with nutrients.

To repay Mother-Nature for blessing Marin County so openhandedly, many refuges and preserves have been established to project the wares of Mother-Nature.

- It has been estimated that more than 1,000 species of plants and animals are saved from harm and extinction at Point Reyes National Seashore which is nested between the rocky shores of the Pacific Ocean, the lush grassy flatlands, the rolling hills and the tree-rich forests.

- Well over 1,000 genus of plants and animals are protected in the magnificent surroundings of Point Reyes National Seashore which is set amidst the Pacific Ocean, rocky beaches, sprawling grasslands, gently sloping hills and thickly wooded forests.

- The Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) was established in 1972 and with its 75,398 acres spanning over a couple of counties is one of the world’s largest national parks located within an urban setting as well as one of the largest coastal preserves in the United States. The GGNRA includes 59 miles of beaches and the awe inspiring Muir Woods National Monument of Marin County.

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