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| | SFWATER.ORG : Article |
 | | The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s (SFPUC) Peninsula Watershed is home to some of the Bay Area’s most intact native habitats. |
 | | Located in San Mateo County 13 miles south of San Francisco, the Peninsula Watershed consists of 23,000 acres of forested hills, coastal scrub, and grasslands that harbor over 165 species of birds, 800 species of plants and trees, 50 species of mammals, and 30 species of reptiles and amphibians. |
 | | In fact, the SFPUC Peninsula Watershed contains the highest concentration of rare, threatened, and endangered species in the nine-county Bay Area and is a State Fish and Game Refuge. |
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