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Big Creek SMR was established in 1994 and Big Creek SMCA was established in September 2007 by the California Fish & Game Commission. It was one of 29 marine protected areas adopted during the first phase of the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative. The Marine Life Protection Act Initiative (or MLPAI) is a collaborative public process to create ...
The lake has an inflow from Petenwell Lake, Yellow River, Big Roche a Cri., and Klien Creek. [1] It has a surface area of 16,640 acres (67.3 km 2 ) and its depth varies from 8–20 ft (2.4–6.1 m) in most places, with area in the old river beds reaching as deep as 35 ft (11 m).
Big Creek State Park is a 3,550 acres (1,440 ha) park built alongside the 866 acres (350 ha) manmade Big Creek Lake. [1] Big Creek Lake was created as a result of a diversion dam to the Saylorville Lake Reservoir flood control project in the 1970s. [1] The lake and its associated State Park is located 26 miles outside Des Moines, Iowa. [2]
Rock Creek Lake is an alpine lake along the Elkhorn Crest trail in the southern end of the Elkhorn Mountains in Baker County, eastern Oregon. It is located on the northern slope of Rock Creek Butte, the highest point in the Elkhorn Mountains range. While the lake is located on a glacial cirque, it is part of the West Fork Rock Creek drainage ...
Rock Lake receives the majority of its water from Rock Creek, which further downstream is a tributary of the Palouse River, as well as Negro Creek. The lake is approximately 7 miles (11 km) long and 1-mile (1.6 km) wide, having a wildly varying depth with steep dropoffs plunging over 300 feet down. [6] About half a mile from the boat launch ...
The 3,848 acres (6.013 sq mi) Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve located in the southern region of Big Sur, California is owned by the University of California Natural Reserve System. It is located off State Route 1 in 50 miles (80 km) south of Monterey and adjacent to the Big Creek State Marine Reserve and Big Creek State Marine Conservation Area .
Big Creek (Big Creek Flats in the 1870s; Manzanita Park in 1902; until 1926, Cascada) [3] is a small census-designated place [4] in Fresno County, California, located in the Sierra Nevada on the north bank of Big Creek. It lies at an elevation of 4,984 feet (1,519 m) above sea level. [2] Its last population count was 175.
Big Creek is a 19.3-mile-long (31.1 km) tributary of the San Joaquin River in the Sierra Nevada, within the Sierra National Forest, central California. The creek flows in Fresno County . [ 1 ] The settlement of Big Creek is named for it, as was the 2020 Creek Fire , which started in the Big Creek drainage and became one of California's largest ...