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