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.
PHOTOS: Over 80,000 forced to evacuate as Blue Cut fire rages east of Los Angeles. The Blue Cut fire erupted in Southern California on Tuesday, burning thousands of acres and forcing evacuations for entire communities.