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Flood water is released from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir into the Tuolumne River. By volume, the Tuolumne is the largest river draining the southern Sierra, with an estimated virgin flow of 1,850,000 acre-feet (2.28 km 3) per year – over 2,550 cubic feet per second (72 m 3 /s). [2]
Wolf Creek is a waterway in Nevada County, California, US. The creek is 25 miles (40 km) long. The watershed, approximately 78 square miles (200 km 2 ), is heavily mined. [1] Most of the creek is situated in the lower montane zone. Its altitude ranges between 3,000 feet (910 m) (headwaters at Banner Mountain, [2] also known as Banner Hill) [3 ...
Mokelumne River ( jump to tributaries) Old River (side channel of San Joaquin River) Middle River (side channel of San Joaquin River) Bear Creek. Calaveras River ( jump to tributaries) Mormon Slough (distributary of Calaveras River) French Camp Slough. Littlejohns Creek. Rock Creek.
The Yuba River is a tributary of the Feather River in the Sierra Nevada and eastern Sacramento Valley, in the U.S. state of California. The main stem of the river is about 40 miles (64 km) long, [ 2] and its headwaters are split into three major forks. The Yuba River proper is formed at the North Yuba and Middle Yuba rivers' confluence, with ...
Grass Valley is a city in Nevada County, California, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census , its population was 12,860. Situated at roughly 2,500 feet (760 m) in elevation in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, this northern Gold Country city is 57 miles (92 km) by car from Sacramento and 88 miles (142 km ...
Deer Creek is a stream that flows through the Sierra Nevada Range in Northern California, USA. [1] The 34 miles (55 km) stream begins above Scotts Flat Lake in the alpine region in the Tahoe National Forest, continues through the middle of downtown Nevada City, is a tributary to Lake Wildwood and ends as it enters the Yuba River below Englebright Lake.
The Bear River is a tributary of the Feather River in the Sierra Nevada, winding through four California counties: Yuba, Sutter, Placer, and Nevada. About 73 miles (117 km) long, the river flows generally southwest through the Sierra then west through the Central Valley, draining a narrow, rugged watershed of 295 square miles (760 km 2 ).
North of Grass Valley, the lower montane forest ranges from 2,000 to 4,000 feet (600 to 1,200 m), with less ponderosa pine and more Douglas-fir. [9] In the middle Sierra, south to the Merced River , the lower montane forest has the same elevation, but precipitation decreases and the forest mixes with chaparral. [ 9 ]