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Blackwood Creek (California)

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Blackwood Creek is the third largest stream (by area and discharge) of the 63 Tahoe Basin watersheds flowing into Lake Tahoe. The Blackwood Creek watershed drains an area of 7,166 acres (2,900 ha) and the creek mainstem has Middle Fork and North Fork tributaries. The creek mainstem is paralleled
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Blackwood Creek was named for early settler, miner and fisherman Hampton Craig Blackwood, who settled at the creek's mouth in 1866. The area was heavily grazed and logged into the 1970s. "Blackwood Pass" at the head of the creek is named on the Wheeler Survey Report of 1876-1877.
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Robert L. Leonard; Louis A. Kaplan; John F. Elder; Robert N. Coats; Charles R. Goldman (September 1979). "Nutrient Transport in Surface Runoff from a Subalpine Watershed, Lake Tahoe Basin, California".
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dam on Blackwood Creek apparently broken by vandals. Beaver dams are easily crossed by
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U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data.
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as a fishery. It is now a critical spawning stream for Lake Tahoe's non-native
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Tahoe Place Names: The Origin and History of Names in the Lake Tahoe Basin
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Lower Blackwood Creek Restoration, California Tahoe Conservancy.
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Middle Fork Blackwood Creek, North Fork Blackwood Creek
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Location of the mouth of Blackwood Creek in California
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California State Route 89
Blackwood Creek (California) is located in California
United States
California
Placer County
Idlewild
Ellis Peak
Sierra Nevada Mountains
37°19′12″N 122°09′19″W / 37.32000°N 122.15528°W / 37.32000; -122.15528
Mouth
Lake Tahoe
39°03′47″N 120°12′24″W / 39.06306°N 120.20667°W / 39.06306; -120.20667

Beaver
trout
Washo
stream
Ellis Peak
Sierra Nevada
Lake Tahoe
Tahoe City, California
Idlewild
Placer County, California
Lahontan cutthroat trout
Upper Truckee River
Washoe
rainbow trout
List of Lake Tahoe inflow streams

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