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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.
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.
California Trout is a San Francisco-based 501(c)(3) conservation group with a mission to ensure [2] resilient wild fish in California waters. California Trout have three conservation initiatives focused on: Strongholds; Source Water Areas; Wild Fish, Working Landscapes; Initially organized in the mid-1960s as a local unit of Trout Unlimited ...
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 Fall River Conservancy and the Fall River Resource Conservation District both work to restore the river. The former has worked with the University of California Davis to study the trout and identified two distinct sub-populations, one adapted to the colder winter flows of Bear Creek and one adapted to the more constant temperature spring-fed waters of Spring Creek and the Fall River ...
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.
Swanton Pacific Ranch is a 3,200-acre (1,300 ha) ranch in Santa Cruz County, California, outside the town of Davenport.The ranch is owned and operated by California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) for educational and research in sustainable agriculture.
Pond Farm (also known as Pond Farm Workshops) was an American artists’ colony that began in the 1940s and, in one form or another, continued until 1985. [1] It is located near the Russian River resort town of Guerneville, California , about 75 mi (120 km) north of San Francisco .