What Plants And Animals Live In The Sacramento Watershed

Northern Spotted Owl

The natural communities of the watershed reflect the variety of local soil types, drainage patterns, elevations, slope, and orientations to sun and current of air. The following natural communities are establish in the watershed: Northern Coastal Scrub, Chaparral, Grasslands, Coastal Table salt Marsh, Freshwater Marsh, Vernal Marsh (Seasonal Wetland), Coastal Riparian Wood, Valley Oak Woodland and Oak Savannah, Coast Live Oak Woodland, and Mixed Evergreen Woods. A number of rare plant species are plant in or adjacent to our watershed, especially where serpentine is exposed. At that place is substantial urban and suburban evolution within the watershed, so habitats in the watershed too include suburban gardens, urban parks and roadsides.

Our watershed provides habitat to species that have adapted well to urban and suburban development, including mule deer, raccoon, opossum, skunks, numerous birds, and a variety of reptiles and amphibians. Mountain lions, coyotes and river otters are occasional visitors. The federally endangered California clapper rail and salt marsh harvest mouse and the threatened northern spotted owl occur in the watershed.

Salt Harvest Mouse

Over the years, sightings of adult steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss), coho salmon (O. kisutch) and Chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha) have been reported for the Corte Madera Creek watershed. These fish drift from the ocean to spawn in the shallow headwater streams where they hatched, although pairs of Chinook salmon seen in 2001and 2003 were probably strays from the Sacramento River. Coho salmon sightings in winter were quite mutual upwardly to the 1970s, when deposition of its habitat ended spawning runs; in some years during the 1950s spawning fish were so plentiful on the Drake Loftier School campus that students could gather them up. Different coho and Chinook salmon, steelhead survive spawning, returning immediately to the ocean, so are not often seen every bit adults. However summertime surveys of pools continue to record them in fair numbers, especially in upper San Anselmo and Cascade creeks in Fairfax. Among the many consequences of urbanization that have macerated the steelhead run, the construction of the mile-long physical channel in Ross and Kentfield was the most dramatic: in 1971, immediately after the channel's completion, steelhead was withal the dominant species by number in Ross, while surveys conducted in 1973-1975 showed that it had been relegated to a minor species. Steelhead is classified as a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act, and this condition provides leverage for improving creek habitat in our watershed, to the benefit of all species.(Some members of the species O. mykiss, the same species as steelhead, spend their unabridged lives in freshwater, in which case they are chosen rainbow trout. Information technology is possible that some of the adult fish establish in Corte Madera Creek watershed are rainbow trout.)

Juvenile Rainbow Trout

For more than information:
Fish&Wild animals.pdf (204 KB)
FisheriesES.pdf (52KB)
NatCommPlants.pdf (290 KB)
PlantIDInvasivePlants.pdf (332 KB)
PlantID Native Shrubs and Vines.pdf (317 KB)
PlantID Native Trees.pdf (52KB)
San Anselmo Creeks Survey (pdf)

Source: https://friendsofcortemaderacreek.org/new_site/watershed/plants-and-animals/

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