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SAN FRANCISCO BAY
Local species, minor islands, waterways, ecologies. Home, to the extent that I have one. Inspired by the lighting from the ferry.
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The San Francisco Bay is a metropolitan area of 7.5 million people and three major American cities built around a network of tidal waterways. This estuary system is the end point for 40% of California’s fresh water, which drains into Pacific Ocean via the Sacramento River. This system is built around two sub-bays (San Francisco & San Pablo), where over forty watersheds drain, including:
• Major rivers of Napa and Sonoma counties (Napa & Petaluma rivers, Sonoma Creek).
• A patchwork of urban creeks, often paved over and underground.
• A network of mountain creeks (Marin, San Mateo , Santa Clara counties). These creeks and their tributaries drain lush redwood forest that is a part a narrow band of habitat along the Pacific Coast, from central California to southern Oregon.
• Adobe Creek (inspired the Photoshop company)
• Coyote Creek (drains the Santa Clara basin)
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