Dye Creek

Coordinates: 40°4′4″N 122°6′43″W / 40.06778°N 122.11194°W / 40.06778; -122.11194[1]

Dye Creek is an 18.2-mile-long (29.3 km)[2] watercourse in Tehama County, California, USA, that is tributary to the Sacramento River.[3] Dye Creek's watershed is situated in north-central California. The Dye Creek watershed contains rugged terrain areas of oak-studded forest,[4] and also provides habitat for numerous understory flora and fauna. An example forb found in the watershed is the poppy Calochortus luteus, which is at its northern limit around the Dye Creek watershed.[5]

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  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dye Creek
  2. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 10, 2011
  3. Thomas P. Simon. 1999
  4. Victoria M. Edwards. 1995
  5. C. Michael Hogan. 2009

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