Figure 1: A Sacramento perch(Archoplites interruptus)caught at Lake Crowley in Mono County, California. Lake Crowley is a reservoir built in 1941 for storage along the Los Angeles Aqueduct. High elevation, cold waters provide quality habitat for a robust population of Sacramento perch. Photo by ...
First, you tap Owens River Valley and sluice that water through the LA Aqueduct. Then, you move up to Mono Lake and get that water as well. So that’s one set of exploitations that has a far-reaching effect on the life that could have been lived by the Paiute and white settlers up...
“Tell me,” he asked, though it wasn’t entirely a question. “What kind of place is this? Not a single penny was put in that piggy bank.” I cut across Twisselman Road to the pipeline gliding along the aqueduct like a silver snake. I thwack both lines. They thwack back. Yes, ...
Hiking in the Mojave, on the PCT, is not like that. Due to not being able to get an easement through the Tehachapi Mountains, the PCT is routed through what is essentially a twenty mile dirt road walk in the vicinity of the Los Angeles aqueduct. Hot, not too scenic, but I had fun...
aqueduct to send the water south. (The Grindstone, Paskenta and Chrome Indians live on the other side of the Coastal Mountains.) Although both the BIA and the US Army Corps of Engineers deny plans to flood the Valley are underway, but rumors amongst the Indians persist and trouble them. ...
First, you tap Owens River Valley and sluice that water through the LA Aqueduct. Then, you move up to Mono Lake and get that water as well. So that’s one set of exploitations that has a far-reaching effect on the life that could have been lived by the Paiute and white settlers ...