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valley oak, California bay laurel, toyon, and buckeye. In these woodlands, a wide variety of other plants grow beneath the trees, forming an understory. These plants include a variety of native and introduced grasses, herbaceous forbs, and small shrubs. Among the more common native understory plants are purple needle grass, soft chess grass, California yarrow, and poison oak. Native grasses that evolved over millions of years once dominated the grasslands of
California. But changes in the fire frequency and intensity, the introduction of competitive grasses from the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, and changes in the way the grasslands were grazed by animals led to a complete conversion in the species make-up of our grasslands. Now annual grasses introduced from Europe dominate California's grasslands, while the native grasses cover only a minor fraction of the grassland area. The grasslands of the Alhambra Creek watershed support a wide array of wildflowers as well. Many of these wildflowers grow best when grazed moderately by wildlife and livestock.
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Briones Formation and several other geologic units have common seashell fossils, telling us they began as layers of sand in a shallow sea. The Martinez formation is named for the town. The Hambre formation is named for Arroyo del Hambre Creek. Probably the most dramatic man-made geologic change is the extension of the stream floodplain into the bay, creating virtually all of the land now north of Main Street. This was built up of huge volumes of sediment coming down the Sacramento River as a result of hydraulic mining in the Sierra Nevada during the
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source at an elevation of about 900 feet (300 m), 3 miles (5 km) to the west. Arroyo del Hambre Creek is joined by several tributaries, among them Vaca Creek, on its way to join
Alhambra Creek. Franklin Creek joins Alhambra Creek about 2 miles (3 km) below the confluence of Alhambra and Arroyo del Hambre Creeks. Franklin Creek drains a subwatershed of roughly the same size as the combined Upper Alhambra and del Hambre basins. It originates about 3 miles (5 km) northwest of its confluence with Alhambra and flows southeast through Franklin Canyon then bends to the north to flow through the
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Martinez family. A large tidal wetland at the mouth of the creek still exists today although it is significantly reduced in size. The city was founded in 1849 on 120 acres (0.49 km) along the creek's floodplain and it has experienced numerous mild to severe seasonal flooding events ever since. Further up the watershed, the Briones family owned the Briones Valley Rancho (1852 land grant) a portion of which in modern times became the
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Alhambra Creek and is a keystone species as its ponds support steelhead trout and other fish, birds, otter and mink. Historically, Alhambra Creek likely supported a population of salmon and steelhead, as was typical of free flowing Bay Area streams. The Martinez Packing Company was established in 1882 and canned and shipped about 350 cases of salmon per day. The local commercial fishery thrived on huge runs of salmon up the Sacramento/San Joaquin River system.
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watershed, acting as a community resource, and providing a forum for new ideas and projects. By representing diverse stakeholder interests and promoting healthy natural systems, AWC seeks the health and vitality of the entire watershed community. The county, Friends of
Alhambra Creek, National Park Service, Muir Heritage Land Trust, residents, Martinez Planning Commission, and Alhambra Valley Improvement Association are all active participants.
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Alhambra Creek watershed also supports at least one mountain lion, which feeds upon the deer that live there. One frequently used feeding spot is located near Carquinez Scenic Drive, just west of the watershed boundary. The ground squirrel is a keystone species in the annual grasslands, serving as an important food source for the coyote, red-tailed hawk, kestrel, and golden eagle.
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galvanized pipe from the spring to a bottling plant in downtown
Martinez across from the train station, approximately 6 miles (10 km). The Alhambra Water Company was born. As the business grew, glass-lined railcars were used to carry water to bottling plants in Oakland and San Francisco. Today, Alhambra Water comes from elsewhere.
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Alhambra Creek is about 6 miles (10 km). For the first 2 miles (3 km), Alhambra creek descends from about 1,100 feet (300 m) elevation to 200 feet (60 m). At this point, it is joined by Arroyo del Hambre Creek, which comes from a
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Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and on the hundreds of small "rushcovered" islands. Farnham, who had travelled extensively in North America, said: "There is probably no spot of equal extent in the whole continent of America which contains
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Deer use the dense woodlands for forage, cover and shade. Coyotes and mountain lions prey on the deer. A huge number of bird species utilize the trees and shrubs for food, cover, and nesting habitat. Skunks and raccoons also live in the coast live oak woodlands, feeding on small mammals (like mice),
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Beginning some 8,000 years ago, Native Americans (Miwok and Costanoan), hunted, fished and gathered food in the interior rolling hills and wetlands associated with Alhambra Creek. The use of intentionally set wildland fires became a common practice to maximize the land's productivity for hunting and
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Two plant communities each comprise about half of the Alhambra Creek watershed, coastal oak woodlands on north and east facing slopes and California annual grassland on drier high ridges and west and south facing slopes. The most common trees found in the oak woodlands are coast live oak, blue oak,
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of 5,200 acres (21 km). Cattle ranching was the predominant land use in the watershed during the early years of settlement followed by establishment of orchards and vineyards in the richer soils of Alhambra Valley. By 1920, an average of 150 carloads of pears, 30 cars of grapes and 20 cars of
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transformed from a sparsely populated native landscape to a highly manipulated, densely populated urbanized setting. Arroyo del Hambre (Alhambra Creek) and its tributaries lie within the boundaries of two large Mexican Land Grants that were established in the early to mid-19th century. The city of
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Coastal marsh is another type of plant community found at the mouth of Alhambra Creek. Above the mudflats salt grass and pickleweed dominate the marsh. The salt marsh harvest mouse, a state and federally listed species, lives in these areas. A number of shore birds also nest in the coastal marsh
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Along Alhambra Creek's riparian corridor, trees like willows, cottonwoods, sycamores, big-leaf maples and valley oaks dominate riparian areas. Growing underneath the trees are a variety of shrubs including elderberry, California blackberry, and California rose. The American beaver has recently
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in particular, to world trade. The Spanish, French, English, Russians and Americans engaged in the California fur trade before 1825, harvesting prodigious quantities of beaver, river otter, marten, fisher, mink, fox, weasel, harbor and fur seals and sea otter. When the coastal and oceanic fur
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in the upper watershed was the original source for the Alhambra Bottled Water Company. Circa 1897, Loren M. Lasell bought 300 acres (1.2 km) in Vaca Canyon on upper Alhambra Valley Road. There were hot sulfur springs, clear springs and a small resort. In 1902, Mr. Lasell built a 2-inch
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lived, as well as a nearby 325 acres (1.3 km) tract of oak woodland and grassland historically owned by the Muir family. The main site is on the edge of town, in the shadow of State Route 4, also known as the "John Muir Parkway". The mansion was built in 1883 by prominent physician and
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9.7 million 1999 flood-improvement project. The City Council wanted to remove the beavers because of fears of flooding, ironically, as the worst flood since the flood control project was in 2005, two years before the beavers came. Local residents organized to protect them, forming an
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pipe through the beaver dam so that the pond's water level could not become excessive. Now protected, the beaver have transformed Alhambra Creek from a trickle into multiple dams and beaver ponds, which in turn, led to the return of numerous birds,
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and joins Alhambra Creek between Walnut Avenue and Alhambra Way. There are no reservoirs and no heavy industry in the watershed. An oil refinery is located just over the ridge to the east, and two railroads and a freeway cross the watershed.
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mother-in-law, did not like the name and renamed the lower creek also as Alhambra Creek. Currently the entire creek is commonly called the Alhambra Creek, and Arroyo del Hambre Creek and Franklin Creek are considered its two tributaries.
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arrived in Alhambra Creek in downtown Martinez. The beavers built a dam 30 feet (9 m) wide and at one time 6 feet (2 m) high, and chewed through half the willows and other creekside landscaping the city planted as part of its
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of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Delta probably held the largest concentration of beaver in North America. It was California's early fur trade, more than any other single factor, that opened up the West, and the
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seed gathering. However, by the late 18th century this way of life began to fade as the first waves of Spanish settlers moved into the Bay Area. This was the beginning of 200 years of rapid change, as the entire
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The Alhambra Creek Watershed covers approximately 16.5 square miles (43 km) in north central Contra Costa County, and encompasses a portion of the city of Martinez. The combined branches flow through
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on the San Joaquin River. These trapping expeditions must have been extremely profitable to justify the long overland trip each year. It appears that the golden beaver (
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This article is about Alhambra Creek and Alhambra Valley in Martinez in Northern California. For the city in Los Angeles County, see
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1920:Crissy Field
1879:Sierra Point
1859:Point Isabel
1839:Seal Islands
1804:Hooks Island
1789:Castro Rocks
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2692:San Lorenzo
2647:El Sobrante
2569:San Leandro
2347:Water Trail
2270:Delta smelt
2068:High Street
2058:Park Street
2033:Golden Gate
1965:Steinberger
1940:Napa Sonoma
1864:Foster City
1849:Albany Bulb
1819:The Sisters
1794:Coast Guard
1754:Yerba Buena
1720:Islands and
1378:Schoolhouse
1373:San Lorenzo
1368:San Leandro
1308:San Joaquin
1287:Mission Bay
1252:Grizzly Bay
1247:Golden Gate
1182:Hydrography
729:French Camp
696:Worth a Dam
669:green heron
649:river otter
636:flow device
632:Worth a Dam
585:Green heron
555:River otter
546:June, 2010
285:Tributaries
257: /
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2861:Categories
2821:AC Transit
2800:Tara Hills
2780:Port Costa
2755:Kensington
2652:Emeryville
2642:El Cerrito
2627:Cherryland
2584:Union City
2564:Pleasanton
2320:Reber Plan
2245:Marincello
2188:(proposed)
2028:(inactive)
1950:Salt ponds
1722:peninsulas
1578:Watersheds
1528:Reservoirs
1513:Strawberry
1418:San Rafael
1353:Codornices
1313:Sacramento
1232:Suisun Bay
1075:2009-11-07
1032:2010-07-06
974:Bay Nature
947:Bay Nature
782:References
510:black bear
508:) and the
321:California
245:122°7′34″W
242:37°58′24″N
170:122°7′43″W
167:37°56′22″N
98:California
2805:Vine Hill
2760:Knightsen
2720:Blackhawk
2703:under 10k
2667:Lafayette
2622:Bay Point
2579:San Ramon
2574:San Pablo
2554:Pittsburg
2534:Livermore
2514:Brentwood
2130:Ports and
2063:Fruitvale
2048:Carquinez
2020:Dumbarton
1986:and tubes
1975:Westpoint
1779:Belvedere
1597:Parks and
1488:San Pablo
1398:San Mateo
1323:Guadalupe
1296:Waterways
1168:watershed
421:John Muir
380:, within
327:Geography
311:, in the
2740:Crockett
2682:Piedmont
2662:Hercules
2657:Fairview
2539:Martinez
2524:Danville
2502:25k-100k
2486:Richmond
2481:Berkeley
2433:Counties
2426:East Bay
2383:Category
2088:Transbay
1915:Cordelia
1900:Baylands
1893:Wetlands
1814:Red Rock
1774:Bay Farm
1739:Alcatraz
1448:Alhambra
1383:Temescal
1328:Petaluma
1092:(1857).
1006:June 12,
760:See also
404:Bay Area
337:Martinez
313:East Bay
118:Martinez
79:Location
2775:Pacheco
2710:Bayview
2632:Clayton
2617:Ashland
2600:10k-25k
2509:Alameda
2491:Antioch
2476:Concord
2471:Hayward
2466:Fremont
2461:Oakland
2440:Alameda
2250:Ecology
2205:History
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2098:Ferries
2053:Leimert
2043:Antioch
1993:Bridges
1984:Bridges
1925:Hoffman
1910:Chelsea
1905:Belmont
1784:Brother
1734:Alameda
1498:Wildcat
1483:Karlson
1473:Garrity
1463:Refugio
1443:Pacheco
1393:Redwood
1348:Cerrito
1338:Alameda
1187:Ecology
1175:Outline
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444:Geology
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2687:Pinole
2677:Orinda
2672:Moraga
2612:Albany
2549:Oakley
2544:Newark
2529:Dublin
2371:Portal
1970:Suisun
1930:Meeker
1764:Brooks
1518:Easton
1493:Castro
1468:Pinole
1428:Novato
1423:Miller
1403:Sonoma
1388:Sausal
1343:Baxter
1303:Rivers
1277:Former
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2785:Rodeo
2735:Clyde
2725:Byron
2607:Alamo
2198:Other
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1935:Mowry
1799:Greco
1759:Minor
1744:Angel
1478:Rheem
1458:Rodeo
1453:Adobe
1433:Tolay
1242:Minor
1222:Major
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561:2008
210:Mouth
94:State
1955:Seal
1834:Ryer
1809:Mare
1769:Bair
1318:Napa
1008:2010
982:2009
955:2009
914:2009
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