Editing Northern California (section)

== Significance ==
Since the events of the [[California Gold Rush]], Northern California has been a leader on the world's economic, scientific, and cultural stages. From the development of gold mining techniques and logging practices in the 19th century that were later adopted around the world, to the development of world-famous and online business models (such as [[Apple Inc.|Apple]], [[Hewlett-Packard]], [[Google]], [[Yahoo!]], and [[eBay]]), northern California has been at the forefront of new ways of doing business. In science, advances range from being [[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory|the first]] to isolate and name fourteen [[transuranic]] [[chemical element]]s, to breakthroughs in microchip technology. Cultural contributions include the works of [[Ansel Adams]], [[George Lucas]], and [[Clint Eastwood]], as well as [[beatniks]], the [[Summer of Love]], [[California wine|winemaking]], the cradle of the international environmental movement, and the open, casual workplace first popularized in the [[Silicon Valley]] [[dot-com boom]] and now widely in use around the world. Other examples of innovation across diverse fields range from [[Genentech]] (development and commercialization of genetic engineering) to [[CrossFit]] as a pioneer in extreme human fitness and training.
It is also home to one of the largest Air Force Bases on the West Coast, and the largest in California by square meters, [[Travis Air Force Base]].
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