Harkins, Gallighan and Struve Sloughs
Map SatellitePortions of these sloughs, which are being impacted by residential and agricultural development, retain remnant stands of the once predominant vegetation, freshwater marsh and riparian. Cattails, Typha sp., tule, Scirpus sp., Juncus spp., willows, Salix spp., and spike-rush, Eleocharis sp., are found in varying amounts in the sloughs.
These remnants serve as refuges for a variety of animals and they receive some use by migratory waterfowl, particularly cinnamon teal, Anas cyanoptera, as well as numerous other birds. Muskrats, Ondatra zibethica, longtail weasels, Mustela rixosa, and the gray fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus, are among the larger mammals that frequent the sloughs and adjacent uplands.
Integrity: The vegetation has been severely impacted by conversion of the land to agricultural use and by agricultural wastes.
Use: Private
March 1978
Inventory of California Natural Areas
Revision © 2009 Steven Louis Hartman