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Elkhorn Slough occupies the western reaches of Elkhorn Valley, a relic river valley eroded by drainage pouring out of the Santa Clara Valley and/or Great Valley of California (before the Golden Gate opened) into Monterey Bay during the early Pleistocene. In the mid-1850s A.D. Elkhorn Slough was a minor tributary to the much larger Pajaro ...
The Elkhorn Slough is home to more than 700 species of plants, animals and marine life, including endangered and threatened species such as the southern sea otter, the Santa Cruz long-toed ...
Dr. Ivano Aiello, chair of San José State’s Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, said in the release that the soils at the Elkhorn Slough Reserve were tested following the fire. The reserve is ...
Elkhorn Slough marsh birds. The Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve is a nature reserve that is located at 1700 Elkhorn Road in Watsonville, California. [1] The reserve encompasses the central shore of Monterey Bay and is approximately 100 miles (160 km) south of San Francisco, California. [2]
The first male sea otter arrived in the Elkhorn Slough, 35 miles north of Bixby Cove, in the late 1990s. Only in the early 2000s did females arrive, and soon thereafter pups, said Wasson.
The areas under evacuation orders include areas of Moss Landing south of the Elkhorn Slough, north of Molera Road and Monterey Dunes Way, and west of Castroville Boulevard and ElkHorn Road to the ...
A level Marsh Trail runs from this area to a small picnic area, and then the main channel of Elkhorn Slough. [4] The eastern shore of Elkhorn Slough is protected as part of the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve. [3] Moss Landing State Beach and Zmudowski State Beach provide access to the Monterey Bay directly west of the ...
Moss Landing is located in northern Monterey County, where Elkhorn Slough becomes an estuary as it flows into Monterey Bay at the head of the Monterey Submarine Canyon. [12] California State Route 1 follows the eastern edge of the community, leading north 8 miles (13 km) to Watsonville and southwest 18 miles (29 km) to Monterey.