Tijuana is a city that has grown in startling and unpredictable ways, from low-key ranching settlement to Prohibition-era party spot to booming manufacturing center alongside the world's busiest border.
American ranching settlements developed following the Mexican War, including the King Ranch, which was established in 1847 by Richard King.
The site also interprets the former town of Manzanar, the ranch days, the settlement by the Owens Valley Paiute, and the role that water played in shaping the history of the Owens Valley.
This exercise sought to identify the relative compatibility of 10 land uses (conservation, livestock or game ranching, tourism/recreation, rural settlement, dryland cropping, irrigated cropping, dairy farming, plantation forestry, and urban settlement) with maintaining biodiversity integrity.
"And I'm going to spend my settlement on ranching till it's all gone".
Separate galleries honor women in entertainment, in the rodeo arena, and in Western settlement and ranching.
The town, about 150 miles east of San Francisco, was once a crossroads named Bald Rock Ranch, between western mining settlements and those over the Sierra Nevada to the east.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Brazil's then military government actively encouraged deforestation through road-building, tax breaks for turning forest into cattle ranches, and large-scale settlement projects.
The interior, despite scattered ranching and mining settlements, is largely home to Indians.
Other than some scattered settlement for cattle ranching, little attention was given to the interior until the 19th century.
