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Whitewater Preserve is a nature preserve owned and managed by The Wildlands Conservancy, a nonprofit land conservancy.Consisting of 2,851 acres (11.54 km 2) of land in Riverside County, California, the preserve features the perennial Whitewater River flowing through a desert canyon.
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 ...
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 .
Whitewater is located at (33.924203 N, 116.644453 W) and is named for the nearby Whitewater The wind farm is located near the I-10 exit at (33.914456 N, 116.743897 The area has nearly constant wind due to the venturi effect created by the San Bernardino Mountains to the north and the San Jacinto Mountains to the south, resulting in perfect conditions for the wind farm.
Stevens Creek is a 20.9-mile-long (33.6 km) [4] stream in Santa Clara County, California.The creek originates in the Santa Cruz Mountains on the western flank of Black Mountain in the Monte Bello Open Space Preserve near the terminus of Page Mill Road at Skyline Boulevard.
The upper watershed of Corralitos Creek and its Browns Creek tributary is designated "high potential" habitat for steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and is a top priority stream for the protection and restoration of the South-Central California Coast Distinct Population Segment (DPS) of this anadromous fish. [12]
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 creek has native rainbow trout and historically had significant ocean-going runs of steelhead. Stony Creek was named for the large amount of rocks and sediments it once washed down from the mountains during floods. Today, most of the sediment is trapped behind Black Butte Dam, a flood-control structure built in 1963. [5]