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upper part, anadromous salmonids fish used the approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 km) waterway to migrate between the river and upstream spawning grounds. The slough has silted approximately 16 inches (41 cm) since the 1850s. Presently, the slough is isolated from the river at all but high water events and it is fed by rainwater and runoff; Pala Road routinely floods during most of the winter and spring.
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but dune migration has cut off this connection. By 1942, the slough had begun to isolate from tidal influences. Ponds in the immediate area may be other channel remnants. Before the 1942 construction of Pala Road, dividing the slough into a lower (near the Smith River at the northern end) and an
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Yontocket Slough was once the main drainage channel of the Smith River, but about 900 years ago, the river abandoned the channel. The 1856 map of the area shows the slough (then named "Ottawa Slough") tidally connected to the Smith River and the upstream Tryon Creek flowing south into
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added large quantities of grey silt on top of the channel sediments, reducing the depth, changing the flora and further reducing fish habitat. The silt was drag line dredged in 1985 and cattle were excluded from the stream bed and fringing verge by 2002 after which adult
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because flooding the canary grass 24 inches (61 cm) during the June growing season prevents growth and establishment. The wetlands are fringed by patches of
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This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F. According to the
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had planted more than 1,000 Sitka spruce and red alders as well as 500 willow sprigs and 3,000 feet (910 m) of exclusion fencing.
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surrounds the slough, floats in it as mats, but rarely occurs below the 4.8 feet (1.5 m) mark which is dominated by native
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was located in the dunes above the Yontocket Slough. Nearby is the Yontocket Historic District, an archeological site of the
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people by white settlers in 1853. The dead were thrown in the slough, and the village burnt, after which it was known as
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in the 1970s and cattle grazing halted until the 1990s when the grazed short areas were used for forage habitat by
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are open for public access for hiking, wildlife watching and seasonal hunting activities, and coastal access.
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California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Yontocket, California
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PDF:Yontocket Slough Fish Passage and Habitat Enhancement Planning Project
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Yontocket Slough and Tryon Slough Assessment for Improvement of Anadromy
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The lower 2,500 feet (760 m) of the slough were purchased by the
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In 1881, Yontocket Slough was described as "literally alive with
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Unincorporated communities in Del Norte County, California
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was named for Yontocket, where the first one was caught.
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41°54′27″N 124°11′56″W / 41.90750°N 124.19889°W / 41.90750; -124.19889
Unincorporated community

Yontocket is located in California
Yontocket is located in the United States
41°54′27″N 124°11′56″W / 41.90750°N 124.19889°W / 41.90750; -124.19889
United States
California
Del Norte County
Tolowa
unincorporated community
Del Norte County
California
Smith River
Indigenous peoples of California
National Register of Historic Places
Yontoket Massacre
Tolowa
a town of the same name
Lake Earl
salmon
Noachian Deluge
Christmas flood of 1964
coastal cutthroat trout
California Conservation Corps
California Department of Parks and Recreation
Aleutian geese
northern red-legged frog
great egret
black-crowned night heron

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