Z Ranch (site)

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Former site of one of the "alphabet" Shafter/Howard dairy ranches. Abandoned by 1933 due to a lack of management of poison oak and coyotebrush through the Coast Miwok use of fire, making what was used as dairy pasture unsuitable for grazing.

www.nps.gov/pore/historyculture/people_ranching.htm

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Coordinates: 38°2'23"N 122°49'40"W

Devil's Gulch Ranch 10 km
McEvoy Ranch 19 km
McNear Brickyard 32 km
Standard Oil Point Orient Facility 36 km
Jacuzzi Family Vineyard 38 km
Chevron Tanker Terminal 38 km
Gloria Ferrer Caves & Vineyards 38 km
Chevron Refinery 38 km
Pier 70 Historic Shipyard 49 km
Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard 52 km

Point Reyes National Seashore 4.8 km
Samuel P. Taylor State Park 9 km
Drake's Bay 10 km
Drake's Estero 10 km
Tomales Bay State Park 10 km
San Andreas Fault Zone (approx.) 11 km
Tomales Bay 15 km
Mount Tamalpais Watershed 19 km
Tomales Point 23 km
Bodega Bay 31 km

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Point Reyes National Seashore Samuel P. Taylor State Park Drake's Bay Drake's Estero Tomales Bay State Park San Andreas Fault Zone (approx.) Tomales Bay Mount Tamalpais Watershed Tomales Point Bodega Bay