A native of Trabuco Canyon, California, Tuerk attended Santa Margarita Catholic High School, where he was a two-way lineman and helped the team win the CIF Pac-5 and CIF Division I state titles in 2011.
The Bell Creek valley is narrower, beginning a few miles south of Trabuco Canyon, California, and running in an almost perfectly straight southward course to San Juan Creek, which at this point is shortly out of the uppermost reach of its watershed, San Juan Canyon.
Trabuco Canyon is north of the town of Rancho Santa Margarita.
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The fire affected Irvine, Santiago Canyon, Silverado Canyon, Modjeska Canyon, Trabuco Canyon, Foothill Ranch, and Portola Hills.
There is a monastery at Trabuco Canyon, 60 miles south of LA, which is also home to a sculpture of Vivekananda.
Aside from the large mammals including mountain lions, coyotes, and bobcats (the last California grizzly bear in the Santa Ana Mountains was shot near Trabuco Canyon) the creek was once a productive habitat for steelhead trout.