COSUMNES RIVER

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California Poppies (State Flower) growing along the Cosumnes River near Rancho Murieta.(jt)

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Granlees Dam on the Cosumnes River near Rancho Murieta. Picture taken from Rancho Murieta South. The Granlees Dam is named for the local Granlees family that occupied much of the land where Rancho Murieta is today. The Granlees had a turkey farm.

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Cosumnes River near Rancho Murieta. This picture depicts the usual calmness of
the river. The "sandy beach" in the lower left corner wall all but very sandy until
the floods of 1997 when the Cosumnes became a raging river. The Cosumnes (ku sum nees) remains
one of the last uncontrolled rivers. It begins at an elevation of about 8,000 in the Sierra Nevada
mountains and ends 80 miles downtream at the confluence with the Mokelumne River in the
San Joaquin Delta.