Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/31

March 2007
 * ... that Fountaingrove Lake (pictured) in Santa Rosa, California, is a habitat for the threatened Western pond turtle, and is surrounded by a championship golf course?
 * ... that Room 307, Gilman Hall on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where the element plutonium was discovered, is a United States National Historic Landmark?
 * ... that the Benicia Arsenal in Benicia, California, was home to the short-lived U.S. Camel Corps?
 * ... that Tolay Lake has yielded thousands of charmstones thrown into the lake by prehistoric peoples to invoke health and high crop yields?