Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/8


 * ... that there are only two extant populations of the Tiburon Jewelflower (pictured), both on the Tiburon Peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area?
 * ... that the Yulupa Creek watershed has been designated as critical habitat for two California endangered species?
 * ... that the Laguna de Santa Rosa in Sonoma County, California, has several endemic endangered species and is the second-largest freshwater wetland in Northern California?
 * ... that Isaias W. Hellman, a co-founder of the University of Southern California, ran Wells Fargo Bank out of his house after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake leveled its headquarters?
 * ... that Graham Creek in California was a seasonal hunting and gathering ground for prehistoric Pomo and Wappo people?
 * ... that the Brush Creek confluence (pictured) with Santa Rosa Creek was the site of a Pomo village, the antecedent of modern Santa Rosa, California?

December 2006