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 fire scorched 45 acres and was 15 percent contained as of 7 a.m. Wednesday, Cal Fire confimed. Mandatory evacuations were ordered on Temepa Rd., west of Pala Temecula Rd., Tuesday evening after a house fire spread to surrounding brush. The fire first sparked at 1:55 p.m. in a two-story home located at 38850 Pala Temecula Rd., Cal Fire officials said, approximately 57 miles north of downtown San Diego.