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The Feather River stonecrop (Sedum albomarginatum) is a rare plant endemic to the Feather River watershed. The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has developed a safe eating advisory for the upper [ 34 ] and lower [ 35 ] sections of Feather River based on levels of mercury found in fish caught from this water body.
The North Fork Feather River is a watercourse of the northern Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades in the U.S. state of California.It flows generally southwards from its headwaters near Lassen Peak to Lake Oroville, a reservoir formed by Oroville Dam in the foothills of the Sierra, where it runs into the Feather River.
The river canyon is an important transportation corridor, forming route for SR 70, which parallels the north bank of the river, and for the Union Pacific Railroad's Feather River Route on the south bank. The Feather River Route was originally constructed between 1906 and 1909 while the highway was built in the 1920s.
The East Branch North Fork Feather River is a left tributary of the North Fork Feather River extending past Twain to near Belden. [5] East Branch headwaters begin along ~46 mi (74 km) of the Sierra Crest from the triple watershed point with the North Fork (Bear Valley Creek headwaters) across Diamond Mountain (Indian Creek), Black Mountain, and ...
The Upper North Fork Feather River Project is a hydroelectric scheme in the Sierra Nevada of California, within Lassen and Plumas Counties. The project consists of three dams, five power plants, and multiple conduits and tunnels in the headwaters of the North Fork Feather River , a major tributary of the Feather — Sacramento River systems.
The dam is 130 feet (40 m) tall and composed of hydraulic fill.. Lake Almanor Dam, spillway, and release point for the North Fork Feather River. The first dam was completed by Great Western Power in 1914 [2] as part of the Upper North Fork Feather River Project, damming the North Fork of the Feather River and flooding the meadow-filled valley generally known as Nakam Koyo/Big Meadows/Big ...
The Lost Sierra is a region bordered on the north by the North Fork of the Feather River, to the south by the North Fork of the Yuba River, to the west by the town of La Porte, one of the important gold towns of the late 1800s, and to the East by Eureka Peak – the mountain that appears on the Great Seal of the State of California. [3]
The Middle Fork Feather River is a major river in Plumas and Butte Counties in the U.S. state of California. [1] Nearly 100 miles (160 km) long, it drains about 1,062 square miles (2,750 km 2 ) [ 3 ] of the rugged northern Sierra Nevada range.