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Map of southeastern Henry Coe State Park in the Diablo Range of California, showing North Fork Pacheco Creek and the "Hole in the Rock" barrier to upstream steelhead trout runs below the Brem Horse Camp. North Fork Pacheco Creek is a 19 miles (31 km) tributary stream of Pacheco Creek, in Santa Clara County, California.
Trout, salmon, newts and salamanders inhabit the area's streams, and Bullfrog Pond hosts sunfish, black bass, and bullfrogs. Birds such as wild turkeys , wood ducks , spotted owls , great blue herons , ravens , white-tailed kites , California quail , woodpeckers , hawks , and tyrant-flycatchers are seen there.
California golden beaver family on upper Los Gatos Creek Chinook salmon spawning on Los Gatos Creek in 1996 by U. S. Highway 17. Beaver dams on upper Los Gatos Creek. Note dead conifer(s) reflected in pool and in background are critical for cavity-nesting birds like wood ducks, American kestrels, mergansers, Pacific-slope flycatchers, tree swallows, owls, etc. Beaver and dam on lower Los Gatos ...
Arroyo Trabuco (known also as Trabuco Creek [1]) is a 22-mile (35 km)-long stream in coastal southern California in the United States. [4] Rising in a rugged canyon in the Santa Ana Mountains of Orange County, the creek flows west and southwest before emptying into San Juan Creek in the city of San Juan Capistrano.
Although rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), was initially identified in 1792 in Kamchatka, Siberia by Johann Julius Walbaum, William P. Gibbons, founder of the California Academy of Sciences, believed in 1855 that he had discovered a new species of trout in San Leandro Creek, which he named Salmo iridea (now the coastal rainbow trout ...
The Golden Trout Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada, in Tulare County and Inyo County, California. It is located 40 miles (64 km) east of Porterville within Inyo National Forest and Sequoia National Forest .
The American beaver has recently recolonized Alhambra Creek and is a keystone species as its ponds support steelhead trout and other fish, birds, otter and mink. Historically, Alhambra Creek likely supported a population of salmon and steelhead, as was typical of free flowing Bay Area streams.
Pine Gulch Creek once supported both steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch).The salmon run, made vulnerable by overfishing, disappeared after 1968, but reappeared in 2001 and since the population started growing again, helped by new restrictions on water use from the creek. [3]