Elkhorn Slough Foundation

Elkhorn Slough at the Crossroads
Natural Resources and Conservation Strategies
for the Elkhorn Slough Watershed

From the Executive Summary: The Elkhorn Slough Watershed is an ecological treasure of both local and national significance.... Our proposed vision for the slough includes an intact and interconnected network of natural communities, including coastal marsh within Elkhorn Slough and Moro Cojo Slough, enhanced freshwater wetlands in McClusky Slough, a restored stream-side forest along the lower Carneros Creek floodplain, and a series of upland ridges with unfragmented maritime chaparral in the Elkhorn Highlands.... The purpose of this report is to identify and to recommend conservation strategies that will allow this vision to be realized.

You may download all or parts of the report by clicking these links:

Full document (.pdf, 6.8MB) - text and figures.

Text-only version (.pdf, 212KB).

Figures only (.pdf, 5.8MB) in one document

Figure 1 (.pdf, 1MB): Regional Context Map

Figure 2 (.pdf, 130KB): Vegetation in the Elkhorn Slough Watershed

Figure 3 (.pdf,111KB): Existing and Potential Maritime Chaparral Distribution in the Elkhorn Slough Watershed

Figure 4 (.pdf, 99KB): Elkhorn Slough Watershed - 100 Meter Buffer Around Water Features

Figure 5 (.pdf, 84KB): Elkhorn Slough Watershed - Environmentally Sensitive Areas

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