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Eel River (California)

Index Eel River (California)

The Eel River (Cahto: Taanchow) is a major river, about long, of northwestern California. [1]

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Admiral William Standley State Recreation Area

Admiral William Standley State Recreation Area is a state recreation area of California, USA, featuring of redwoods on the Eel River.

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Alderpoint, California

Alderpoint (formerly, Alder Point) is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California at an elevation of, east-northeast of Garberville.

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Bald Mountain (Humboldt County)

Bald Mountain, in Humboldt County is located at 11.4 miles east of Arcata that rises to an elevation of.

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Baseflow

Baseflow is the portion of the streamflow that is sustained between precipitation events, fed to streams by delayed pathways.

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Benbow Lake State Recreation Area

Benbow Lake State Recreation Area is a state park unit of California in the United States.

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Benbow, California

Benbow is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California, located beside the South Fork Eel River.

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Benchmark Maps

Benchmark Maps is a map-publishing company based in Medford, Oregon and Santa Barbara, California.

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Black Butte River

The Black Butte River is located in the Mendocino National Forest of northern California in Glenn and Mendocino counties.

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Blue goo

Blue goo is a sticky, plasticky, blueish-grey, clay-textured soil derived from a highly weathered serpentinite mélange.

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Branscomb, California

Branscomb is an unincorporated community in Mendocino County in the U.S. state California.

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Bull Creek (Humboldt County)

Bull Creek is the largest Eel River tributary drainage basin preserved within Humboldt Redwoods State Park.

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Cache Creek (Sacramento River tributary)

Cache Creek is an U.S. Geological Survey.

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Cadillac Desert

Cadillac Desert, by Marc Reisner, is a 1986 book published by Viking about land development and water policy in the western United States.

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Cahto language

Cahto (also spelled Kato) is an extinct Athabaskan language that was formerly spoken by the Kato people of the Laytonville and Branscomb area at the head of the South Fork of the Eel River.

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Cain Rock, California

Cain Rock is an locality in Humboldt County, California.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California Aqueduct

The Governor Edmund G. Brown California Aqueduct is a system of canals, tunnels, and pipelines that conveys water collected from the Sierra Nevada Mountains and valleys of Northern and Central California to Southern California.

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California Bays and Estuaries Policy

The Water Quality Control Policy for the Enclosed Bays and Estuaries of California is published by the California State Water Resources Control Board as guidelines to prevent water quality degradation.

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California Coast Ranges

The Coast Ranges of California span from Del Norte or Humboldt County, California, south to Santa Barbara County.

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California Gold Rush

The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.

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California State Route 1

State Route 1 (SR 1) is a major north–south state highway that runs along most of the Pacific coastline of the U.S. state of California.

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California State Water Project

The California State Water Project, commonly known as the SWP, is a state water management project in the U.S. state of California under the supervision of the California Department of Water Resources.

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Cape Mendocino

Cape Mendocino, approximately 200 miles north of San Francisco, is located on the Lost Coast entirely within Humboldt County, California, USA.

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Catostomus

Catostomus is a genus of fish belonging to the family Catostomidae, commonly known as suckers.

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Cecil Andrus

Cecil Dale Andrus (August 25, 1931 – August 24, 2017) was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who was elected four times as Governor of Idaho and served for fourteen years (1971–77, 1987–95).

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Chinook salmon

The Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) is the largest species in the Pacific salmon genus Oncorhynchus.

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Christmas flood of 1964

The Christmas flood of 1964 was a major flood in the Pacific Northwest and some of Northern California between December 18, 1964, and January 7, 1965, spanning the Christmas holiday.

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Clear Lake (California)

Clear Lake is a natural freshwater lake in Lake County in the U.S. state of California, north of Napa County and San Francisco.

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Coastal cutthroat trout

The coastal cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii clarkii) also known as the sea-run cutthroat trout, or harvest trout is one of the several subspecies of cutthroat trout found in Western North America.

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Coastrange sculpin

The Coastrange sculpin (Cottus aleuticus) is a freshwater sculpin of the genus Cottus.

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Coho salmon

The coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch; Karuk: achvuun) is a species of anadromous fish in the salmon family, one of the several species of Pacific salmon.

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Colorado River

The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico (the other being the Rio Grande).

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Confusion Hill Bridges

The Confusion Hill Bridges (aka. Confusion Hill Realignment, Confusion Hill Bypass or South Fork Eel River Bridges) are a pair of high bridges carrying two lanes of U.S. Route 101 over the South Fork Eel River in Mendocino County in the U.S. state of California.

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Cooks Valley, California

Cooks Valley is a populated place in Humboldt County, California.

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Cummings, Mendocino County, California

Cummings is an unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California.

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Cyclostomata

Cyclostomata is a group of agnathans that comprises the living jawless fishes: the lampreys and hagfishes.

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Dam

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of water or underground streams.

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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States.

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Discharge (hydrology)

In hydrology, discharge is the volumetric flow rate of water that is transported through a given cross-sectional area.

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Dos Rios, California

Dos Rios (also, Two Rivers - which is its English translation) is an unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California.

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Douglas fir

Pseudotsuga menziesii, commonly known as Douglas fir, Douglas-fir and Oregon pine, is an evergreen conifer species native to western North America.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.

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Dyerville, California

Dyerville, California is a former settlement in Humboldt County, California.

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East Branch South Fork Eel River

The East Branch South Fork Eel River, a tributary of the South Fork Eel River, is formed by the confluence of Cruso Cabin Creek and Elkhorn Creek, in Mendocino County in the U.S. state of California.

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Ecoregion

An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than an ecozone.

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Eel River and Eureka Railroad

The Eel River and Eureka Railroad company was organized on November 14, 1882 by a group of Eureka businessmen led by John M. Vance (b. Nova Scotia October 1, 1821 – d. January 1892).

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Eel River Athapaskan peoples

The Eel River Athapaskans include the Wailaki, Lassik, Nongatl, and Sinkyone (Sinkine) groups of Native Americans that traditionally live in present-day Mendocino, Trinity, and Humboldt counties on or near the Eel River and Van Duzen River of northwestern California.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.

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Erosion

In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement).

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Eureka, California

Eureka (Hupa: do'-wi-lotl-ding, Karuk: uuth) is the principal city and county seat of Humboldt County in the Redwood Empire region of California.

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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is the United States federal agency that regulates the transmission and wholesale sale of electricity and natural gas in interstate commerce and regulates the transportation of oil by pipeline in interstate commerce.

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Fernbridge (bridge)

Fernbridge is a concrete arch bridge designed by American engineer John B. Leonard which opened in 1911 at the site of an earlier ferry crossing of the Eel River.

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Ferndale, California

Ferndale is a city in Humboldt County, California, United States.

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Fish migration

Many types of fish migrate on a regular basis, on time scales ranging from daily to annually or longer, and over distances ranging from a few metres to thousands of kilometres.

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Fluvial terrace

Fluvial terraces are elongated terraces that flank the sides of floodplains and fluvial valleys all over the world.

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Fort Seward, California

Fort Seward is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California.

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Fortuna, California

Fortuna (formerly, Slide, Springville) (Wiyot: Vutsuwitk Da'l, "ashes stay") is a city on the northeast shore of the Eel River (approximately from where it enters the Pacific Ocean), and is on U.S. Route 101 in west-central Humboldt County, California, United States.

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Franciscan Assemblage

Franciscan Assemblage or Franciscan Complex is a geologic term for a late Mesozoic terrane of heterogeneous rocks found throughout the California Coast Ranges, and particularly on the San Francisco Peninsula.

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Garberville, California

Garberville is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California.

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Gaye LeBaron

Gaye Theresa LeBaron (born 1935) is an American newspaper columnist, author, teacher, and local historian of Sonoma County, California.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories.

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Glenn County, California

Glenn County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Google Earth

Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based on satellite imagery.

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Grassland

Grasslands are areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae); however, sedge (Cyperaceae) and rush (Juncaceae) families can also be found along with variable proportions of legumes, like clover, and other herbs.

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Harbor seal

The harbor (or harbour) seal (Phoca vitulina), also known as the common seal, is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Helena, California

Helena is an unincorporated community in Trinity County, California, United States.

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Humboldt Bay

Humboldt Bay is a natural bay and a multi-basin, bar-built coastal lagoon located on the rugged North Coast of California, entirely within Humboldt County.

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Humboldt County, California

Humboldt County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Humboldt Redwoods State Park

Humboldt Redwoods State Park is a state park of California, United States, containing Rockefeller Forest, the world's largest remaining contiguous old-growth forest of coast redwoods.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower.

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Interbasin transfer

Interbasin transfer or transbasin diversion are (often hyphenated) terms used to describe man-made conveyance schemes which move water from one river basin where it is available, to another basin where water is less available or could be utilized better for human development.

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International scale of river difficulty

The international scale of river difficulty is an American system used to rate the difficulty of navigating a stretch of river, or a single (sometimes whitewater) rapid.

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Island Mountain

Island Mountain is a resistant formation of volcanic and metavolcanic rock in the Franciscan Assemblage of southwestern Trinity County, California.

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John B. Leonard

John Buck Leonard (1864 - 1945) was a pioneering bridge engineer and architect, early advocate for reinforced concrete, working mainly in northern California.

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Josiah Gregg

Josiah Gregg (19 July 1806 – 25 February 1850) was a merchant, explorer, naturalist, and author of Commerce of the Prairies about the American Southwest and Northern Mexico regions.

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Klamath River

The Klamath River (Karuk: Ishkêesh, Klamath: Koke, Yurok: Hehlkeek 'We-Roy) flows through Oregon and northern California in the United States, emptying into the Pacific Ocean.

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Lake County, California

Lake County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of California.

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Lake Pillsbury

Lake Pillsbury is an artificial lake in the Mendocino National Forest of Lake County, California, created from the waters impounded from the Eel River by Scott Dam.

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Lake Van Arsdale

Lake Van Arsdale, also known as Van Arsdale Reservoir, is a reservoir on the Eel River in California, part of the Potter Valley Project.

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Landslide

The term landslide or, less frequently, landslip, refers to several forms of mass wasting that include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep-seated slope failures, mudflows and debris flows.

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Landslide dam

A landslide dam or barrier lake is a natural damming of a river by some kind of landslides, such as debris flows and rock avalanches, or by volcanic eruptions.

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Late Jurassic

The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic period, and it spans the geologic time from 163.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.

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Leggett, California

Leggett (formerly, Leggett Valley) is a census-designated place in Mendocino County, California.

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List of Eel River crossings (California)

This is a list of crossings of the Eel River, a river flowing from the Coast Range to its mouth on the North Coast of the U.S. state of California.

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List of rivers of California

This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of California, grouped by region.

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List of South Fork Eel River crossings

The South Fork Eel River, a river in the northern part of the U.S. state of California, rises near Laytonville and flows about in a northerly direction to its confluence with the Eel River near Weott.

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Mad River (California)

The Mad River is a river in upper Northern California.

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Marc Reisner

Marc Reisner (September 14, 1948 – July 21, 2000) was an American environmentalist and writer best known for his book Cadillac Desert, a history of water management in the American West.

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Mattole River

The Mattole River is a river on the north coast of California, that flows northerly, then westerly into the Pacific Ocean.

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Mendocino County, California

Mendocino County is a county located on the north coast of the U.S. state of California.

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Mendocino National Forest

The Mendocino National Forest is located in the Coastal Mountain Range in northwestern California and comprises 913,306 acres (3,696 km2).

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Mendocino Triple Junction

The Mendocino Triple Junction (MTJ) is the point where the Gorda plate, the North American plate, and the Pacific plate meet, in the Pacific Ocean near Cape Mendocino in northern California.

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Middle Fork Eel River

The Middle Fork Eel River is a major tributary of the Eel River of northwestern California in the United States.

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Mink

Mink are dark-colored, semiaquatic, carnivorous mammals of the genera Neovison and Mustela, and part of the family Mustelidae which also includes weasels, otters and ferrets.

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Miranda, California

Miranda (formerly, Jacobsen's) is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.

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Moratorium (law)

A moratorium is a delay or suspension of an activity or a law.

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Muskrat

The muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus), the only species in genus Ondatra and tribe Ondatrini, is a medium-sized semiaquatic rodent native to North America and is an introduced species in parts of Europe, Asia, and South America.

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Myers Flat, California

Myers Flat (formerly, Myers) is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California.

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National Wild and Scenic Rivers System

The National Wild and Scenic River is a designation for certain protected areas in the United States.

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North American beaver

The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is one of two extant beaver species.

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North American Plate

The North American Plate is a tectonic plate covering most of North America, Greenland, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores.

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North American river otter

The North American river otter (Lontra canadensis), also known as the northern river otter or the common otter, is a semiaquatic mammal endemic to the North American continent found in and along its waterways and coasts.

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North Fork Eel River

The North Fork Eel River is the smallest of four major tributaries of the Eel River in northwestern California in the United States.

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Northwestern Pacific Railroad

The Northwestern Pacific Railroad is a regional railroad that serves the North Coast of California.

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Off-stream reservoir

An off-stream reservoir is a reservoir that is not located on a streambed, and is supplied by a pipeline, aqueduct or an adjacent stream.

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Outlet Creek

Outlet Creek is an Eel River tributary draining the Little Lake Valley northerly through a canyon of the California Coast Ranges.

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Pacific lamprey

The Pacific lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus or Lampetra tridentata) is an anadromous parasitic lamprey from the Pacific Coast of North America and Asia.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Pacific staghorn sculpin

The Pacific staghorn sculpin, Leptocottus armatus, is a common sculpin (Cottidae) found in shallow coastal waters along the Pacific coast from Alaska to Baja California.

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Pepperwood, California

Pepperwood (formerly Barkdull) is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California.

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Peter H. Behr

Peter H. Behr (May 24, 1915, New York City, New York – March 10, 1997, Greenbrae, California) was a California State Senator and lawyer.

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Petroglyph

Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art.

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Philip III of Spain

Philip III (Felipe; 14 April 1578 – 31 March 1621) was King of Spain.

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Phillipsville, California

Phillipsville (formerly, Kettintelbe, Philippsville, and Phillips Flat) is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California.

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Piercy, California

Piercy is an unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California.

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Pineapple Express

Pineapple Express is a non-technical term for a meteorological phenomenon characterized by a strong and persistent flow of atmospheric moisture and associated with heavy precipitation from the waters adjacent to the Hawaiian Islands and extending to any location along the Pacific coast of North America.

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Plate tectonics

Plate tectonics (from the Late Latin tectonicus, from the τεκτονικός "pertaining to building") is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere, since tectonic processes began on Earth between 3 and 3.5 billion years ago.

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Potter Valley Project

The Potter Valley Project is an interbasin water transfer project in Northern California in the United States, delivering water from the Eel River basin to the headwaters of the Russian River.

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Potter Valley, California

Potter Valley is a census-designated place in Mendocino County, California, United States.

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Prickly sculpin

Cottus asper is a species of fish in the sculpin family known by the common name prickly sculpin.

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Ptychocheilus

Squawfish or pikeminnows are cyprinid fish of the genus Ptychocheilus consisting of four species native to western North America.

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Raccoon

The raccoon (or, Procyon lotor), sometimes spelled racoon, also known as the common raccoon, North American raccoon, or northern raccoon, is a medium-sized mammal native to North America.

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Rainbow trout

The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a trout and species of salmonid native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America.

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Randolph Collier

Randolph Collier (July 26, 1902 – August 2, 1983) was a member of the California State Senate.

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Rare species

A rare species is a group of organisms that are very uncommon, scarce, or infrequently encountered.

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Redcrest, California

Redcrest is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California.

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Redway, California

Redway is a census-designated place (CDP) in Humboldt County, California, United States.

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Rice Fork

The Rice Fork is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Richardson Grove State Park

Richardson Grove State Park is located at the southernmost border of Humboldt County, south of Eureka, California, United States, and north of San Francisco.

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Rio Dell, California

Rio Dell (formerly, Rio Del and Eagle Prairie) is a city in Humboldt County, California, United States.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Round Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation

The Round Valley Indian Reservation is a federally recognized Indian reservation lying primarily in northern Mendocino County, California, United States.

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Russian River (California)

The Russian River, a southward-flowing river, drains 1,485 square miles (3,846 km2) of Sonoma and Mendocino counties in Northern California.

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Sacramento pikeminnow

The Sacramento pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus grandis) (also known as Sacramento squawfish) is a large cyprinid fish of California.

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Sacramento River

The Sacramento River is the principal river of Northern California in the United States, and is the largest river in California.

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Sacramento Valley

The Sacramento Valley is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies north of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the Sacramento River.

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Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta

The Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, or California Delta, is an expansive inland river delta and estuary in Northern California.

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Salinas River (California)

The Salinas River is the longest river of the central coast of California, running and draining 4,160 square miles.

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Salmon

Salmon is the common name for several species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae.

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Salmonidae

Salmonidae is a family of ray-finned fish, the only living family currently placed in the order Salmoniformes.

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Salt River (California)

The Salt River is a formerly navigable hanging channel of the Eel River which flowed about from near Fortuna and Waddington, California, to the estuary at the Pacific Ocean, until siltation from logging and agricultural practices essentially closed the channel.

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Samoa, California

Samoa (formerly, Brownsville) is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California.

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San Andreas Fault

The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly through California.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Joaquin River

The San Joaquin River is the longest river of Central California in the United States.

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Scotia Bluffs

Scotia Bluffs form a 2-mile (3-kilometer) series of gray sandstone cliffs along the north bank of the Eel River near Rio Dell, California.

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Scotia, California

Scotia is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California.

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Sebastián Vizcaíno

Sebastián Vizcaíno (1548–1624) was a Spanish soldier, entrepreneur, explorer, and diplomat whose varied roles took him to New Spain, the Philippines, the Baja California peninsula, the California coast and Japan.

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Sediment transport

Sediment transport is the movement of solid particles (sediment), typically due to a combination of gravity acting on the sediment, and/or the movement of the fluid in which the sediment is entrained.

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Sequoia sempervirens

Sequoia sempervirens Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607 is the sole living species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family Cupressaceae (formerly treated in Taxodiaceae).

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Sequoioideae

Sequoioideae (redwoods) is a subfamily of coniferous trees within the family Cupressaceae.

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Shasta Lake

Shasta Lake is a reservoir in Shasta County, California, United States.

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Shively, California

Shively (formerly Shiveley, Bluff Prairie, and Paradise) is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California.

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Short ton

The short ton is a unit of weight equal to.

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Shrubland

Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterised by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes.

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Six Rivers National Forest

Six Rivers National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in the northwestern corner of California.

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Slough

Slough is a large town in Berkshire, England, on the western fringes of the Greater London Urban Area, west of central London, north of Windsor, east of Maidenhead, south-east of High Wycombe and north-east of the county town of Reading.

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Sonoma County, California

Sonoma County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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South Fork Eel River

The South Fork Eel River is the largest tributary of the Eel River in north-central California in the United States.

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Stafford, Humboldt County, California

Stafford (formerly, Brown's Mill and Brown's Camp) is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California.

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Ten Mile River (California)

Ten Mile River is a river in northern Mendocino County, California, United States.

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Terrane

A terrane in geology, in full a tectonostratigraphic terrane, is a fragment of crustal material formed on, or broken off from, one tectonic plate and accreted or "sutured" to crust lying on another plate.

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Three-spined stickleback

The three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is a fish native to most inland coastal waters north of 30°N.

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Trinity County, California

Trinity County is a county in the northwestern part of the state of California.

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Trinity River (California)

The Trinity River (originally called the Hoopa or Hupa by the Yurok, and hun' by the Natinixwe/Hupa people) is a major river in northwestern California in the United States, and is the principal tributary of the Klamath River.

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Tsuga heterophylla

Tsuga heterophylla, the western hemlock or western hemlock-spruce, is a species of hemlock native to the west coast of North America, with its northwestern limit on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and its southeastern limit in northern Sonoma County, California.

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U.S. Route 101

U.S. Route 101, or U.S. Highway 101 (US 101) is a north–south United States Numbered Highway that runs through the states of California, Oregon, and Washington, on the West Coast of the United States.

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United States Army Corps of Engineers

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is a U.S. federal agency under the Department of Defense and a major Army command made up of some 37,000 civilian and military personnel, making it one of the world's largest public engineering, design, and construction management agencies.

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United States Bureau of Reclamation

The United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), and formerly the United States Reclamation Service (not to be confused with the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement), is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power generation.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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University of California Press

University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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Van Duzen River

The Van Duzen River is a river on the north coast of California.

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Weott, California

Weott is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California.

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Western United States

The Western United States, commonly referred to as the American West, the Far West, or simply the West, traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States.

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Whitewater kayaking

Whitewater kayaking is the sport of paddling a kayak on a moving body of water, typically a whitewater river.

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Willits, California

Willits (formerly Little Lake and Willitsville) is a city in Mendocino County, California, United States.

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Wiyot

The Wiyot (Chetco-Tolowa: Wee-’at Yurok: Weyet) are an indigenous people of California living near Humboldt Bay, California and a small surrounding area.

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Yolla Bolly–Middle Eel Wilderness

The Yolla Bolly–Middle Eel Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area in the Yolla Bolly Range of the southern Klamath Mountains and the Inner Northern California Coast Ranges, in Northern California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel_River_(California)

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