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Expressways in California are distinct from freeways; although access to adjoining properties is eliminated, at-grade intersections are allowed. While other ranchers refused, tech pioneers Bill Hewlett and David Packard allowed Coletto and state biologists to translocate the initial 32 tule elk from the Owens Valley in the eastern Sierra onto the 28,000-acre (11,000 ha) San Felipe Ranch, which the families jointly own, in the hills east of Morgan Hill. [12] In March 2014 CDFW translocated nine bull elk from the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge to add genetic diversity to the San Antonio Valley Ecological Reserve herd in San Antonio Valley in extreme eastern Santa Clara County. Home to Silicon Valley, Santa Clara County is an economic center for high technology and has the third highest GDP per capita in the world (after Zurich, Switzerland and Oslo, Norway), according to the Brookings Institution. [17] The animals left the San Felipe Ranch for the Isabel and San Antonio Valleys, as well as an area near Lake Del Valle in Alameda County may now be extirpated by poaching, highway vehicle collisions, and insufficient numbers to defend pronghorn fawns against coyote predation. [42], In the United States House of Representatives, Santa Clara County is split between 4 congressional districts:[43], In the California State Senate, the county is split between 4 legislative districts:[45], In the California State Assembly, the county is split between 6 legislative districts:[46].
[57] GDP grew a strong 7.7% in 2011, and in contrast with most of California, GDP and per capita GDP (nominal) is well above 2007 (financial crisis) levels. The median age was 34 years. From 1872 through 1984, the only Democrats to carry Santa Clara County were Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Hubert Humphrey. The last Republican to win a majority in the county was Ronald Reagan in 1984. The area is also home to several ports, including the Port of Oakland, the fifth busiest container port in the United States,[14] and the Port of Stockton, a major inland deepwater port along the San Joaquin River.
The first major technology company to be based in the area was Hewlett-Packard, founded in a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.