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

2. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 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

3. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 3 From SB Museum Natural History

4. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 4 Rogers 1929 Reconstruction Prehistoric Man of the Santa Barbara Coast, 1929

5. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 5 AK Brown, 1967 The Aboriginal Population of the Santa Barbara Channel, 1967

6. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 6 AK Brown Overlay

7. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 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…’

8. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 8 1782 Map by Pantoja

9. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 9 1782 Map by Pantoja

10. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 10 1782 Map by Pantoja

11. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 11 Mission Era (?) Cattle Ranching (?) San Jose Creek Winery San Miguel Chapel… ruined in 1812, probably near S’axpilil (Fairview/Hollister) (Buffy)

12. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 12 Diseno Maps (1840-1860) (online, cdlib)

13. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 13 Diseno Maps (1840-1860)

14. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 14 Diseno Maps (1840-1860) 1861/2 comes the deluge…

15. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 15 1868 U.S. Coastal Survey (story about earlier data…)

16. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 16 1888 County Map

17. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 17 Sexton Memoir…

18. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 18 Recollections about siltation…

19. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 19 Sexton’s Memory Map

20. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 20 USGS 1902

21. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 21 Aerial Photo (UCSB) - 1928

22. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 22 Aerial Photo (UCSB) - 1938

23. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 Goleta Slough 23 Aerial Photo (UCSB) - 1943

24. CDMSHNN 12/12/05 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?