Bixby Slough

Bixby Slough, 1924 (USGS topographical map of Wilmington)

Bixby Slough (American English pronunciation: “slew/slu”[1]) was an ancient wetland in Los Angeles County, California. Also known as Machado Lake, the slough was a "large freshwater wetland in the Carson-Harbor City-Wilmington area"[2] that flowed into San Pedro Bay about three or four miles (5 km) west of Dominguez Slough.[3] Originally a "network of sloughs, nondescript streams and bogs in the harbor district,"[4] over time the Port of Los Angeles was carved “out of the mud flats and shallow waters that edged the ranchos of San Pedro and Palos Verdes.”[5] About 90 percent of wetland ecosystems in Los Angeles County have been destroyed, with the losses in the highly urbanized South Bay "especially acute" and one biologist calling the draining of Bixby Slough and other harbor-area wetlands a “"wipeout".[6]

  1. ^ How to Pronounce Slough, archived from the original on 2022-09-14, retrieved 2022-07-26
  2. ^ "Wetlands Are Making a Comeback in Southern California". KCET. 2013-06-28. Archived from the original on 2021-02-25. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
  3. ^ I-110 Freeway Transit Construction, Harbor Freeway Corridor, San Pedro to the Convention Center, Los Angeles: Environmental Impact Statement. (1985). United States, p. 7.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Robinson, W. W.; Title Guarantee and Trust Company (Los Angeles, Calif) (1937). San Pedro and Wilmington: a calendar of events in the making of two cities and the Los Angeles harbor. Los Angeles: Title Guarantee and Trust Co. Archived from the original on 2022-07-29. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
  6. ^ Arancibia, Juan (1985-11-07). "Endangered Species: Urbanization Threatens Wetland Havens for Migrating Birds". Los Angeles Times. p. LWS18.