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Goleta Slouth (by an amateur)

Goleta Slouth (by an amateur). Harry Nelson UCSB/Physics RFG December 12, 2005 http://hep.ucsb.edu/people/hnn/goletaslough.html. Conjectured History of Slough. -  (10,000 yr?) to 1780 or so… stable 1780-1925… Euro Agriculture, siltation

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Goleta Slouth (by an amateur)

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  1. Goleta Slouth (by an amateur) Harry Nelson UCSB/Physics RFG December 12, 2005 http://hep.ucsb.edu/people/hnn/goletaslough.html

  2. Conjectured History of Slough • - (10,000 yr?) to 1780 or so… stable • 1780-1925… Euro Agriculture, siltation • 1812 Earthquake… `land opened up in vicinity (of San Miguel Chapel, Fairview/Hollister) to such an extent that it causes horror’… Chumash withdrew to SB Mission… Mescalitan Rancheria threatened by ocean flooding • Legal issue… 1850 at statehood where was tideland boundary? • Record rains… Nov. 1861-Feb 1862, heavily silt the slough • 1925-present… Euro urbanization • 1942/3 filling for airport, leaving the tiny portion extent today Goleta Slough

  3. From SB Museum Natural History Goleta Slough

  4. Rogers 1929 Reconstruction Prehistoric Man of the Santa Barbara Coast, 1929 Goleta Slough

  5. AK Brown, 1967 The Aboriginal Population of the Santa Barbara Channel, 1967 Goleta Slough

  6. AK Brown Overlay Goleta Slough

  7. European Contact • My survey not systematic (eg, Cabrillo, Manila Galleon, Vancouver, etc..) • At least 3 written accounts from Portola Expedition… Sunday, August 20, 1769 • Costanso (engineer)… `two mouths’ (Goleta Beach/Devereux)… to east `marshes and creeks of considerable extent’ • Crespi (priest, two accounts!) `good-sized inlet appearing like a sea arm, which reaches a great way inland’… IV knoll ¼ league in length, mouth at either end… Goleta Beach mouth ` ½ of a quarter league’ • Fages (soldier) `one comes in sight of a long, bare point of land, on the eastern side of which a great estuary penetrates inland by two separate arms, which are probably about half a league distant from each other. This estuary runs close to the north side of a small hill which rises on a point of land and has the appearance of an island… The estuary spreads continually over the level ground eastward, forming various swamps and ponds of considerable extent…’ Goleta Slough

  8. 1782 Map by Pantoja Goleta Slough

  9. 1782 Map by Pantoja Goleta Slough

  10. 1782 Map by Pantoja Goleta Slough

  11. Mission Era (?) • Cattle Ranching (?) • San Jose Creek Winery • San Miguel Chapel… ruined in 1812, probably near S’axpilil (Fairview/Hollister) (Buffy) Goleta Slough

  12. Diseno Maps (1840-1860) (online, cdlib) Goleta Slough

  13. Diseno Maps (1840-1860) Goleta Slough

  14. Diseno Maps (1840-1860) 1861/2 comes the deluge… Goleta Slough

  15. 1868 U.S. Coastal Survey (story about earlier data…) Goleta Slough

  16. 1888 County Map Goleta Slough

  17. Sexton Memoir… Goleta Slough

  18. Recollections about siltation… Goleta Slough

  19. Sexton’s Memory Map Goleta Slough

  20. USGS 1902 Goleta Slough

  21. Aerial Photo (UCSB) - 1928 Goleta Slough

  22. Aerial Photo (UCSB) - 1938 Goleta Slough

  23. Aerial Photo (UCSB) - 1943 Goleta Slough

  24. Perspectives/Conclusions • 1954 student name for UCSB… `Slough U’ • 1969 fight to stop 217 extension through remaining slough (Underground Newspapers…) • `Lost Triangle’… Mescalitan/(Fairview/Hollister)/News Press Printing Plant… slated for intense development • Complete Restoration? Goleta Slough

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