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San Mateo Creek, San Andreas Creek, Adobe Gulch, Laguna Creek, Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct: Primary outflows: San Mateo Creek: Catchment area: 29.4 sq mi (76 km 2) Basin countries: United States: Managing agency: San Francisco Public Utilities Commission: Surface area: 1,323 acres (535 ha) Water volume: 57,910 acre⋅ft (71,430,000 m 3) Surface ...
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 ...
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 ...
Calaveras Dam, built by the Spring Valley Water Company in 1925, was re-built in 2018. Facing legal challenges to release flows to support steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in the 20 miles (32 km) of Calaveras Creek below the dam, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) began steady releases that lowered the water temperatures and resulted in a sharp increase in the numbers ...
Novato Creek is a stream in eastern Marin County, California, United States. It originates in highlands between Red Hill and Mount Burdell above the city of Novato, California , and flows 17 miles (27 km) before emptying into San Pablo Bay south of Petaluma Point.
There is a steelhead trout specimen in the California Academy of Sciences that was collected by Edward Z. Hughes in the 1890s. [19] The first President of Stanford University, David Starr Jordan, included a rendering of a "sea-run rainbow trout from San Francisquito Creek" in the Pacific Monthly in 1906. [20]
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 .
Elizabeth Lake is one of a series of sag ponds created by the motion of the Earth's tectonic plates along the San Andreas Fault in the area, with others including Hughes Lake and the Munz Lakes. [2] [3] They are part of the northern upper Santa Clara River watershed. [4] The community of Elizabeth Lake is on the shore of the lake.