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bradLon Focus on Ocean’s Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar

We are probably living in one of Earth's great mass extinctions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

bradLon A "Hacker's" Guide to the Bay Area

I meant Klamath.

bradLon A "Hacker's" Guide to the Bay Area

I would make the comparison to "Upstate New York" [0]. I like this Wikipedia article more than the one for Northern California because it admits that "there is no clear or official boundary between Upstate New York and Downstate New York".

The same is true for Northern and Southern California. There's no official distinction. Calling the Bay Area part of Northern California places too much emphasis on the Los Angeles area. By analogy, saying that "North" begins at the Transverse Ranges is like saying that "Upstate" begins at Yonkers. Ridiculous.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstate_New_York

bradLon A "Hacker's" Guide to the Bay Area

The Bay Area is not Northern California. It is Central California. Examples of places in Northern California include Yreka, Eureka, Redding, and Klamath Falls.

I have found that (Bay Area subset of N. CA) is a very common misconception of people who have recently moved to the area.