Olema Creek

Olema is probably the name of a Coast Miwok village named "Olemos" or "Olemus" in the baptismal records of Mission Dolores after 1802. == Watershed and Course ==

The Olema Creek watershed is , and is the largest undammed tributary of Lagunitas Creek. It flows northwesterly through the Olema Valley along the San Andreas Fault Zone. The creek flows through the small towns of Five Brooks, Olema, and Point Reyes Station where Olema Creek ends at its confluence with Lagunitas Creek. == Ecology and Conservation ==

The Olema Creek watershed is 99% on National Park Service lands, although 56% of this is under grazing leases. Nineteen percent of the coho salmon spawning in the Lagunitas Creek watershed takes place in Olema Creek. Olema Creek coho salmon were used to genetically rescue Russian River coho salmon suffering from inbreeding depression, resulting in higher fitness of this endangered salmonid in the Russian River. Olema Creek also hosts multiple other listed species: California freshwater shrimp (Syncharis pacifica), tidewater goby (Eucyclogobius newberryi) and California red-legged frog (Rana draytonii). ==References==