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    On the breached sandspit at Stone Lagoon, New Year’s Day 2013.
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    As the level in Stone Lagoon drops after it has breached, a shell-plastered shoreline emerges.
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    In 1985, Ron Warner, a state fisheries biologist, made this fish print of a coastal cutthroat trout caught by Dan Doble. At 21 inches and five pounds, the fish set a new state record at the time.
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    One of the many Stone Lagoon steelhead trout caught at trap sites on McDonald Creek in 1992-93.
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    Map of the lagoons in Humboldt Lagoons State Park. The dashed lines show, roughly, the locations of fold-and-thrust faults that created the basins where the lagoons have formed.
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    A coastal cutthroat trout smolt from the trout-breeding and planting days at McDonald Creek and Stone Lagoon in the early 1990s.
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    A dory skiff built by Ken Bechtol, ready for a spin around Stone Lagoon.
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    An old barn overtaken by nature across the highway from Stone Lagoon
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    Even trees grow massive at Stone Lagoon, some seeming to try to octopus their way into the water.
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    On the trail from Dry Lagoon to Stone Lagoon on a sunny winter’s day.
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    View from the highway in late December of Stone Lagoon and its recently breached spit. The lagoon has breached five times since February 2003, according to California State Park records.
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    A Whitehall-style rowboat built by Ken Bechtol, who often finds himself peacefully alone on Stone Lagoon.
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    Stone Lagoon aquatic species list