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Walking Waterhoods: Sausal Creek — Lower Dimond Park

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Tour Overview

Sausal Creek winds its way through this dramatic canyon that has seen over a thousand years of human activity. As Europeans moved into the area and displaced the native Ohlone from their land, the area now known as Dimond Park went through several iterations as a recreation area, a Boy Scout camp, and eventually the public park you're here to enjoy right now. This tour will focus on the lower region of the park and cover its flora, fauna, history, and the restoration efforts of tireless volunteers who dedicate themsevles to this particular watershed.

Stops

  1. Stop 1: French Broom

  2. Stop 2: Rainbow Trout

  3. Stop 3: William Gibbons and Descendants of the Original Redwoods

  4. Stop 4: Striped Skunk

  5. Stop 5: Swainson's Thrush

  6. Stop 6: Pholiota terrestris

  7. Stop 7: Measure DD Restoration Project

  8. Stop 8: Where are the people of color in Dimond Park's history?

  9. Stop 9: Camp Dimond

  10. Stop 10: Boy Scout Headquarters

  11. Stop 11: Oldest Oak Tree in Oakland

  12. Stop 12: Bell and Historic Plaque

  13. Stop 13: Flatheaded mayfly nymph

  14. Stop 14: Red-flowering Currant

  15. Stop 15: Creek goes underground

  16. Stop 16: Flame Skimmer

  17. Stop 17: Dark-eyed Juncos

  18. Stop 18: Hugh Dimond

  19. Stop 19: Sausal On My Mind Mural

  20. Stop 20: Friends of Dimond Park

  21. Stop 21: Small Honey Ant

  22. Stop 22: Nasturtium

  23. Stop 23: Miner's Lettuce

  24. Stop 24: Golden Milkcaps

  25. Stop 25: Black Witches' Butter

  26. Stop 26: Mulch Fieldcap

  27. Stop 27: WPA Projects

  28. Stop 28: Oak Winter Highflier Moth

  29. Stop 29: Friends of Sausal Creek Native Plant Demonstration Garden

  30. Stop 30: Stonefly nymphs

  31. Stop 31: Ohlone Villages in the Area

  32. Stop 32: Dark-eyed Junco

  33. Stop 33: Diving Beetle

  34. Stop 34: Dimond Canyon Hiking Trail Marker

  35. Stop 35: Common Flesh Flies

  36. Stop 36: Western Tiger Swallowtails

  37. Stop 37: Creek Access

  38. Stop 38: Rest Stop/Picnic area

  39. Stop 39: Creeping Woodsorrel

  40. Stop 40: Annual Honesty

  41. Stop 41: Mini Bridge

  42. Stop 42: California Quail

  43. Stop 43: Fallen Tree Covered in Algerian Ivy

  44. Stop 44: Common Water Strider

  45. Stop 45: Sausal Creek Water Company

  46. Stop 46: California Vole

  47. Stop 47: Leimert Bridge

  48. Stop 48: Concrete Flume

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