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  2. Laguna Seca (Santa Clara County) - Wikipedia

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    Laguna Seca in February, 2019, the largest seasonal freshwater lake in Santa Clara County, courtesy of Gary Jahns. Laguna Seca is a seasonal lake located in south Santa Clara Valley in the Coyote Valley, an area critical to wildlife as the narrowest corridor connecting Mt. Hamilton and the Diablo Range on the east to the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains to the west. [1]

  3. Buena Vista Lagoon - Wikipedia

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    Buena Vista Lagoon is a freshwater lagoon adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the South Coast region of Southern California within the North County region of San Diego County.The lagoon covers 223 acres of wetland habitat and serves as a geographic border between Carlsbad and Oceanside.

  4. Ballona Wetlands - Wikipedia

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    The original extent of Ballona Wetlands likely ranged between 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2) [7] and 2,100 acres (8.5 km 2). [8] The wetlands can be roughly divided into five ecologically distinct areas: saltwater marsh (wetland fed by the ocean), freshwater marsh (wetland fed by creeks and streams), riparian corridor (creek bottomland), sand dunes and bluffs.

  5. Laguna de Santa Rosa - Wikipedia

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    The Laguna de Santa Rosa is a 22-mile-long (35 km) wetland complex that drains a 254-square-mile (660 km 2) watershed encompassing most of the Santa Rosa Plain in Sonoma County, California, United States.

  6. Ecology of California - Wikipedia

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    The coast of California north of San Francisco contains the Northern California coastal forests (as defined by the WWF) and the southern section of the Coast Range ecoregion (as defined by the EPA). This ecoregion is dominated by redwood forest , containing the tallest and some of the oldest trees in the world.

  7. List of ecoregions in California - Wikipedia

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    2 Freshwater ecoregions. 3 Marine ecoregions. 4 References. Toggle the table of contents. ... California is in the Nearctic realm. Ecoregions are listed by biome: [1]

  8. Wetlands of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Wetlands Geodatabase and the Wetlands Mapper, as an Internet discovery portal, provide technological tools that allow the integration of large relational databases with spatial information and map-like displays. The information is made available to an array of federal, state, tribal, and local governments and the public.

  9. Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    Despite its location in the Colorado Desert, a subdivision of the larger Sonoran Desert, the refuge contains marine, freshwater, wetland, and agricultural habitats which provide sanctuary for hundreds of birds and wetland species, including several that have been listed as endangered or sensitive by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. [1]