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The Mokelumne Wilderness is a 105,165-acre (164 sq mi; 426 km 2) [1] federally designated wilderness area located 70 miles (110 km) east of Sacramento, California. It is within the boundaries of three national forests: Stanislaus , Eldorado and Toiyabe .
The relicensing of PG&E's Mokelumne River Project (Project 137), which began in 1972, was the longest such process in FERC history. Meanwhile, PG&E had been running its project, which stretches from Blue Lakes west to Electra Powerhouse, on annual licenses with few requirements for protecting the health of the river or providing river recreation.
The Mokelumne River (/ m ə ˈ k ʌ l əm n i / or / m ə ˈ k ʌ l əm i /; Mokelumne, Miwok for "People of the Fish Net") is a 95-mile (153 km)-long river in northern California in the United States.
The hatchery is owned by EBUMD and operated by the California Department of Fish and Game and is open every day (including holidays) from 7:00 am to 3:00;pm. . It is located in northeast San Joaquin County, California at the base of the Camanche Dam and is reached by taking McIntire Road north from State Route 12.
Wetlands at the Llano Seco Unit of the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex in October 2022. The water flows in the refuge have to be controlled artificially, and the vegetation has to be managed actively through irrigation and burning, to ensure that the wetlands remain productive, and provide adequate food and resting places for the birds.
Mokelumne Peak has the largest body of metamorphic rock in the region, called the Mokelumne Peak roof pendant, extending over an area of 15 square miles (39 km 2).These rocks were originally Jurassic or Cretaceous age, but were metamorphosed when plutons of the Sierra Nevada batholith intruded in the Cretaceous.
The approximately 173-foot-high and 2,640-foot-long dam is located on the Mokelumne River which is about 10 miles downstream from Pardee Dam. Because Camanche Dam has a 627-square-mile drainage area which accounts for about 95 percent of the watershed, the dam and reservoir provide flood damage reduction on the Mokelumne River.
The area is an expansion of the highly successful Butte Sink and Willow Creek-Lurline Wildlife Management Areas and is implemented in accordance with the habitat acquisition goals of the Central Valley Habitat Joint Venture of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan. Conservation easement requires landowners to maintain land in wetlands.