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Franks Tract State Recreation Area (SRA) is a state park unit of California, United States, featuring a flooded area in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. It is accessible only by water. Franks Tract, and a smaller adjoining submerged property called "Little Franks Tract", are situated between the False River and Bethel Island.
The park is named for a break in the levee system that flooded an asparagus farm between the San Joaquin River and Dutch Slough in 1928. [3] The break formed a small bay along the river, near the area where fresh water from the river mixes with salt water from San Francisco Bay.
Browns Island (also Gwin Island or Brown Island) [1] is a regional preserve of the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) in Pittsburg, Contra Costa County, California, United States. It is an island in Suisun Bay, part of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, [a] separated from the rest of Pittsburg by New York Slough.
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Staten Island is an island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, twenty-five kilometres northwest of Stockton. [1] [2] [3] The 3,700 ha (9,100 acres) is bordered on the east and south by South Mokelumne River, and on the west and north by North Mokelumne River. [4] It is in San Joaquin County, and managed by Reclamation District 38. [5]
The 329-acre (133 ha) park was established in 1952. [1] The area offers fishing, including striped bass, sturgeon, catfish, bluegill, perch and bullhead. Southeast, accessed by the San Joaquin River, Frank’s Tract, a protected wetland marsh, is home to beaver, muskrat, river otter, mink and 76 species of birds.
The San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area of along the San Joaquin River in the northern San Joaquin Valley, California. It is within San Joaquin County and Stanislaus County. It protects more than 7,000 acres (28 km 2) of riparian woodlands, wetlands, and grasslands and hosts a diversity of native wildlife.
Mandeville Island is an island in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta located about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Stockton, in central California in the United States. [1] The island covers about 5,500 acres (2,200 ha), and lies between the Old River to the west and Middle River to the east, both distributaries of the San Joaquin River ...