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.
Bluecut Fire Burns 25,000 Acres, Forces 82,000 to Evacuate in California. A fast-growing, minimally contained 25,000-acre wildfire in California triggered a state of emergency and the evacuation of 82,000 people.