City creeks see explosion in spawning salmon population in San Jose after 10 years of habitat cleanup
In the Bay Area of California, home of San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Clara County, and Silicon Valley a famous Pacific resident is heading home for the holidays—up newly-cleaned creeks to spawn. Who could have thought that the cradle of 21st-century civilization, with its problems and advancements, would have space for wild river ecosystems capable of supporting salmon runs? But here they are, reports KTVU, as large as 30 pounds, as long as 35 inches, running up the Guadalupe River Watershed by the hundreds. … The South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition, a non-profit responsible for the salmon’s return, removed 1.3 million pounds of trash from the creeks, from bottles and tires to cars and mattresses.
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