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The Dickson Brothers Ranch occupied 650 acres at the bottom of Reclamation Road - the southern extension of Lakeville Highway - for about a century. In 2015 the levee protecting the ranch from the Bay was breached to complete the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
Prior to flooding, every building and tree on the ranch had been removed. Hundreds of acres of pasture and hayfield were sculptured into tidal islands, channels, and mud flats. No trace remains of the ranch.
The images in this page and the Ranch tour are included in a book I produced for the family (available in hard cover on Amazon), which comprise the primary visual record of what once existed in this historic site.
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Till the early 21st Century this tidal wetland had been ...
The western portion of San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge has subsumbed, and largely submerged, Dickson Brothers Ranch. About 2015, after nearly a decade of planning, acquision, and land use design, transition from the ranch finally began with removal of every tree and building on the 650 acre propertry.
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An elusive landmark on the Bay. Continue for an aerial tour ...
This was, for about a century, the Dickson Brothers Ranch - 650 acres of hay and pasture "reclaimed" from San Pablo Bay in the late 19th Century after gold dredging had all but displaced the Bay.
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_IMG0347 © 2010 Duncan Dwelle
ISO 100 @ f/4.0 for 1/60 sec using Canon EOS 5D Mark II with (unknown) lens at focal lenth 45.0 mm.
Shot on 2010-05-20 06:11 near 38°7'31.80" N 122°26'58.80" W (Google Earth link).
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_IMG0144 © 2010 Duncan Dwelle
ISO 100 @ f/11 for 1/15 sec using Canon EOS 5D Mark II with EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at focal lenth 105.0 mm.
Shot on 2010-05-20 06:19 near 38°7'31.80" N 122°26'58.80" W (Google Earth link).
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_IMG0529 © 2010 Duncan Dwelle
ISO 400 @ f/4.0 for 1/60 sec using Canon EOS 5D Mark II with EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at focal lenth 55.0 mm.
Shot on 2010-05-20 06:20 near 38°7'31.80" N 122°26'58.80" W (Google Earth link).
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_IMG0478 © 2010 Duncan Dwelle
ISO 200 @ f/4.0 for 1/125 sec using Canon EOS 5D Mark II with EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at focal lenth 102.0 mm.
Shot on 2010-05-20 06:35 near 38°7'31.80" N 122°26'58.80" W (Google Earth link).
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_IMG1351 © 2010 Duncan Dwelle
ISO 100 @ f/9 for 1/160 sec using Canon EOS 5D Mark II with EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at focal lenth 35.0 mm.
Shot on 2010-05-20 07:01 near 38°7'31.80" N 122°26'58.80" W (Google Earth link).
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_IMG1293 © 2010 Duncan Dwelle
ISO 100 @ f/7.1 for 1/400 sec using Canon EOS 5D Mark II with EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at focal lenth 105.0 mm.
Shot on 2010-06-20 06:45 near 38°7'31.80" N 122°26'58.80" W (Google Earth link).
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_IMG1287-88 © 2010 Duncan Dwelle
ISO 100 @ f/10 for 1/250 sec using Canon EOS 5D Mark II with EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at focal lenth 47.0 mm.
Shot on 2010-06-19 10:34 near 38°7'31.80" N 122°26'58.80" W (Google Earth link).
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_IMG0914 © 2010 Duncan Dwelle
ISO 320 @ f/5.6 for 1/250 sec using Canon EOS 5D Mark II with EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at focal lenth 105.0 mm.
Shot near 38°7'31.80" N 122°26'58.80" W (Google Earth link).
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_IMG0919 © 2010 Duncan Dwelle
ISO 320 @ f/5.6 for 1/200 sec using Canon EOS 5D Mark II with EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at focal lenth 105.0 mm.
Shot near 38°7'31.80" N 122°26'58.80" W (Google Earth link).
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_IMG0923 © 2010 Duncan Dwelle
ISO 320 @ f/5.0 for 1/160 sec using Canon EOS 5D Mark II with EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at focal lenth 105.0 mm.
Shot near 38°7'31.80" N 122°26'58.80" W (Google Earth link).
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_IMG0841 © 2010 Duncan Dwelle
ISO 320 @ f/4.5 for 1/125 sec using Canon EOS 5D Mark II with EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at focal lenth 105.0 mm.
Shot near 38°7'31.80" N 122°26'58.80" W (Google Earth link).
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_IMG0925 © 2010 Duncan Dwelle
ISO 320 @ f/5.0 for 1/125 sec using Canon EOS 5D Mark II with EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at focal lenth 88.0 mm.
Shot near 38°7'31.80" N 122°26'58.80" W (Google Earth link).
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_IMG0878 © 2010 Duncan Dwelle
ISO 320 @ f/4.5 for 1/100 sec using Canon EOS 5D Mark II with EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at focal lenth 92.0 mm.
Shot near 38°7'31.80" N 122°26'58.80" W (Google Earth link).
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_IMG0232 © 2010 Duncan Dwelle
ISO 100 @ f/7.0 for 1/250 sec using Canon EOS 5D Mark II with (unknown) lens at focal lenth 65.0 mm.
Shot on 2010-04-16 08:23 near 38°7'31.80" N 122°26'58.80" W (Google Earth link).
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_IMG0979 © 2010 Duncan Dwelle
ISO 320 @ f/7.1 for 1/400 sec using Canon EOS 5D Mark II with EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at focal lenth 105.0 mm.
Shot on 2010-06-11 06:06 near 38°7'30.00" N 122°29'38.40" W (Google Earth link).
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P1000504 © 2016 Duncan Dwelle
ISO 100 @ f/4.0 for 1/400 sec using Panasonic DMC-ZS10 with (unknown) lens at focal lenth 5.4 mm.
Shot on 2016-02-21 17:26 near 38°7'33.00" N 122°28'19.80" W (Google Earth link).
This permanent metal explanitory placard on the "Dickson Trail", one of several such plackards on the San Pablo National Wildlife Refuge, was painted with my permission (but without photo credit) from "_IMG0919 © 2010 Duncan Dwelle".
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