The area now is mostly rice paddies, holding water that stormed out of the Sierra Nevada foothills in the last week and a half.

Granite slabs came from other quarries in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

Ten years ago he began a census of chestnut trees in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

But lower, along the 200-mile-long, 80-mile-wide western band of Sierra Nevada foothills, spring is an early, contracted and explosive event.

It is nestled in the Sierra Nevada foothills, 31 miles northeast of Sacramento.

It is endemic to the Sierra Nevada foothills of California.

The plant can be found in all of the major coastal mountain ranges and the northern Sierra Nevada foothills.

Winter swept in as they reached the Sierra Nevada foothills.

It is endemic to California, where it can be found in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

Their home range was in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Auckland, California.