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In the 1930s, Whitewater Trout Farm and hatchery was developed on private property at this location. [10] A cattle company grazed its herd on adjacent BLM land for many decades. In 2006, The Wildlands Conservancy acquired the property. The Conservancy spent a decade restoring the land and creating infrastructure for visitors.
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.
Avery's pond is a historical pond made in the 1880s by a pioneer rancher named Ira Avery. Elevation of the pond is at 530 feet, about 20 feet above Folsom Lake. The 1854 North Fork Diversion ditch provided water for Avery's Pond and water from the pond became a reliable year-around water source for Avery's extensive orchards.
Trout Creek is a 1.8-mile-long (2.9 km) [2] southeastward-flowing stream originating in the Santa Cruz Mountains, a tributary of Los Gatos Creek in Santa Clara County, California. From its confluence with Los Gatos Creek, its waters flow to the Guadalupe River and thence through San Jose, California to south San Francisco Bay .
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 ...
Three-week-old beaver kit swimming in Alhambra Creek c.June, 2010 River otter returns to beaver pond c.2008 Mink returns to beaver pond c.2009 Green heron eating first recorded Sacramento splittail c.2010 Hooded mergansers return to beaver pond December 2010 Belted kingfisher eating fish above beaver pond . In 2006, a male and female California ...
The current phase of the Redwood Creek Restoration Project, begun in 2009, is an attempt to restore the 46-acre creek floodplain. It includes creation of a new 650 foot meandering channel with three side-channels, in an attempt to restore the historic Big Lagoon, which according to 1850 maps, extended all the way back to the present Pelican Inn ...