Bixby Slough (American English pronunciation: “slew/slu”) was an ancient wetland in Los Angeles County, California. Sometimes called Machado Lake, the slough was a “large freshwater wetland in the Carson-Harbor City-Wilmington area” that flowed into San Pedro Bay about three or four miles (5 km) west of Dominguez Slough. Originally a “network of sloughs, nondescript streams and bogs in the harbor district,” over time, “out of the mud flats and shallow waters that edged the ranchos of San Pedro and Palos Verdes a great harbor, man-made, has sprung to life.” About 90 percent of wetland ecosystems in Los Angeles County have been destroyed, with the losses in the highly urbanized South Bay “especially acute” and one biologist calling the draining of Bixby Slough and other harbor-area wetlands
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| - Bixby Slough (American English pronunciation: “slew/slu”) was an ancient wetland in Los Angeles County, California. Sometimes called Machado Lake, the slough was a “large freshwater wetland in the Carson-Harbor City-Wilmington area” that flowed into San Pedro Bay about three or four miles (5 km) west of Dominguez Slough. Originally a “network of sloughs, nondescript streams and bogs in the harbor district,” over time, “out of the mud flats and shallow waters that edged the ranchos of San Pedro and Palos Verdes a great harbor, man-made, has sprung to life.” About 90 percent of wetland ecosystems in Los Angeles County have been destroyed, with the losses in the highly urbanized South Bay “especially acute” and one biologist calling the draining of Bixby Slough and other harbor-area wetlands (en)
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| - George H. Bixby interview in James W. Reagan’s flood report as quoted on page 22 of Blake Gumprecht’s The Los Angeles River book as surfaced by Jessica Hall on her L.A. Creek Freak blog (en)
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| - “I once had a Mexican vaquero whose father had lived here all his life who said that all of the valley…was one tangle of marsh willows, larch, blackberry vine and other tangled undergrowth that was impenetrable…there were only or two trails across the valley and they were not safe for two reasons: on account of the undergrowth and bogs, and there were bears in the tangled jungle. On both sides of Los Cerritos and further up in the valley there were a great many springs in the side hills and peat bogs. They were surrounded by tules, willows and other brambles. As the country became more settled and wells were sunk in the upper land, there was less water and the springs flowed less and less until in the final attempt to drain the land, they used tile drains and the springs disappeared.” (en)
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| - Bixby Slough (American English pronunciation: “slew/slu”) was an ancient wetland in Los Angeles County, California. Sometimes called Machado Lake, the slough was a “large freshwater wetland in the Carson-Harbor City-Wilmington area” that flowed into San Pedro Bay about three or four miles (5 km) west of Dominguez Slough. Originally a “network of sloughs, nondescript streams and bogs in the harbor district,” over time, “out of the mud flats and shallow waters that edged the ranchos of San Pedro and Palos Verdes a great harbor, man-made, has sprung to life.” About 90 percent of wetland ecosystems in Los Angeles County have been destroyed, with the losses in the highly urbanized South Bay “especially acute” and one biologist calling the draining of Bixby Slough and other harbor-area wetlands a “wipeout.” (en)
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