Eastern Mojave Vegetation Tom Schweich
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Eastern Mojave Vegetation | California Highway 203 - Eastern Sierra |
| Tom Schweich |
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| Other Articles: Old Highway 395: at Substn Rd Junction: Old Highway 395
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little section of road that extends California Highway 203 to the old Highway is called Substation Road.
| | Literature Cited: Other Articles: U. S. Highway 395: at CA Hwy 203 Junction: |
| Other Articles: Old Mammoth Road: at CA Hwy 203 Junction: Old Mammoth Road
| | | Mammoth LakesThe local newspaper is the Mammoth Times, which has lots of links to other web sites. The Mammoth Community Water district operates a GPS Community Base Station that may be helpful if you are performing research in that area. | Literature Cited: | Valentine Eastern Sierra ReserveFlora prepared by Howald (2000) | Other Articles: Lake Mary Road: at Main and Mineret
| Lake Mary RoadTake the Lake Mary Road to see the area where trees have been killed by Carbon Dioxide gasses at Horseshoe Lake. For more information see Gases and Tree Kill on Mammoth Mountain in Long Valley caldera, California. | Other Articles: Mammoth Scenic Loop: at CA Hwy 203 | Mammoth Lakes Scenic LoopJunction: Forest Road 3S23 "Mammoth Scenic Loop", otherwise known as the "Mammoth Lakes Volcanic Escape Route," but I'm sure the Chamber of Commerce would object to this name. | Literature Cited: | Mammoth MountainsGood place to ski, if you're into that. | Literature Cited: Locations: Minaret Summit.
| Minaret SummitStop at Minarets Summit for a view of the Minarets and the valley below. We didn't. We just zoomed right on by. Well, when we turned the corner the view was stuning. We had to find a place to turn around, and go back to Minarets Summit to take this picture. It was taken in early morning.Howald (1989) points out that “rain shadow” effect is ameliorated in the Mammoth Mountain area because it lies directly east of the Mammoth Pass to Minaret Summit gap [to the San Joaquin River valley], a lower section of the crest where storms pass to the east more quickly, bringing greater amounts of rain and especially snow. Indeed, the ancestral San Joaquin River may have passed this way draining an area at the head of the Walker Basin (and thus the larger Lahontan system), and the Owens River–Death Valley system (and thus, potentially, the Colorado River) westward perhaps to the Pacific Ocean (Phillips, F. M., 2008). It thus holds a unique position as a potential “switching yard” for aquatic species transfers (Reheis et al., 2002).
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Agnew Meadows Campground | | Literature Cited: Locations: Starkweather Lake. Starkweather Lake
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Springs Campground | | Other Articles: FAQ: CP121201
| Pumice Flat CampgroundThe Pumice Flat campground is along the San Joaquin river. Nice place for lunch. This bear had Bisquick and Wesson Oil for lunch. | | Devils Postpile National MonumentThe Park Services' web site at http://www.nps.gov/depo/ is very brief. | 
Devil's Postpile. Here
is my picture of the Postpile. Took this one in late morning, on a Fall day. The lighting would be better in mid afternoon for photography.
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Devil's Postpile. The
top of the Postpile looks like this, the columns have been polished by glaciers.
| | Other Articles: Field Notes: 30 Jun 2010 | Rainbow Falls TrailheadThe trailhead to Rainbow Falls is at the end of California Highway 203. The walk to view Rainbow Falls is downhill, a little more than a mile. Once at the viewpoint, you can walk down a staircase to the bottom of the falls.
| | Literature CitedA list of all literature cited by this web site can be found in the Bibliography.
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| Anderson, R. Scott. 1990. Holocene forest development and paleoclimates within the central Sierra Nevada, California. Journal of Ecology. 78: 470-489. Location records referred to by this literature:
| | Howald, Ann M. 1989. Vegetation and Flora of the Mannoth Mountain Area. pp. 48-96 in Hall, Clarence A., Jr., Victoria Doyle-Jones, and Barbara Widawski. White Mountain Research Station Symposium. Natural History of Eastern California and High-altitude Research. Volume 3. Bishop, California: University of California, September 1989. ... Location records referred to by this literature:
| | Howald, Ann M. 2000. Part I. Valentine Camp. A Flora of Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve. MSE Environmental Report Number 16. Santa Barbara, California: University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000. {TAS-pdf}
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| Phillips, F.M. 2008. Geological and hydrological history of the paleo–Owens River drainage since the late Miocene. pp. 115–150 in Reheis, M.C., Hershler, R., and Miller, D.M.. Late Cenozoic Drainage History of the Southwestern Great Basin and Lower Colorado River Region: Geologic and Biotic Perspectives. Geological Society of America Special Paper 439. Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America, 2008. ... doi: 10.1130/2008.2439(06). Location records referred to by this literature:
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| Reheis, Marith C., Scott Stine, and Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki. 2002. Drainage reversals in Mono Basin during the late Pliocene and Pleistocene. GSA Bulletin. 114(8):991-1006. {TAS-pdf} Location records referred to by this literature:
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interesting questions in my FAQ, but I never disclose your full name or address.
| | Date and time this article was prepared: 5/18/2012 1:05:47 PM |
