Explain how extremes of pH limit growth. Majority of organisms live or grow in habitats between pH 6 and 8 obligate acidophiles: Euglena mutabilis-alga that grows between 0 and 1.0 pH Thermoplasma-archae that lives in hot coal piles at a pH of 1 to 2, and would lyse if exposed to pH 7.
Most of the current California wildfires are in the north, including a large one in Mendocino County and several others in the Sierra Nevada, the north coast and the San Joaquin Valley.
The so-called Soberanes Fire near Big Sur in Monterey County has burned 31,386 acres, or more than 49 square miles, since it broke out July 22, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, also known as Cal Fire. The fire was at 29,877 acres late Friday.