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    Hillside Creek in Fortuna winds its plant-denuded way past a development. Photo courtesy the California Department of Fish and Game
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    Hillside Creek, cleared of its native vegetation, looks like a tame, neighborly ditch now. Photo courtesy the California Department of Fish and Game
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    Rohner Creek nudging up against a building in Fortuna. Photo courtesy the California Department of Fish and Game
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    Gordon Leppig, DFG scientist, says the bottom of a slough is no place to put a house. Photo by Heidi Walters
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    DFG’s Gordon Leppig next to a Martin Slough tributary on the Eureka golf course. The stream flows to an irrigation pond where biologists have found hundreds of juvenile coho salmon. Photo by Heidi Walters
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    Biologists, surveying for fish, pulling a seine net at Martin Slough. Photo courtesy the California Department of Fish and Game
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    A Humboldt Hill subdivision near a tributary to Humboldt Bay. Photo courtesy the California Department of Fish and Game
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    A wetland connected to Second Slough that’s been stripped of its riparian vegetation by a would-be developer. Photo courtesy the California Department of Fish and Game
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    Map of Eureka’s Creeks & Sloughs. North Coast Journal graphic.
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    On the cover: A little coho found in Martin Creek. Photo courtesy of the Department of Fish and Game.