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unusual facts about Great Basin


Bibliography of the Sierra Nevada

Sierra East: Edge of the Great Basin by Genny Smith, Diana Tomback, Ann Howald, ISBN 0-520-23914-8, 2000


California Gull

There are two subspecies recognized, the nominate from the Great Basin to central Montana and Wyoming, and the slightly larger, paler L. c. albertaensis with a more northerly distribution, ranging from Great Slave Lake onto the Great Plains of western Manitoba and South Dakota.

Chiselmouth

They are typically found in warmer parts of streams and rivers in the drainages of the Columbia River, Fraser River, and the Harney-Malheur system of the Great Basin.

Cleomella plocasperma

It is native to the Great Basin and Mojave Desert in the western United States, where it grows mainly in wet, alkaline soils such as those around hot springs.

Delphinium stachydeum

It is native to the Pacific Northwest and Great Basin of the United States, where it grows in sagebrush scrub and along the edges of mountain forest habitat where it meets prairie and plateau.

Desert kangaroo rat

The desert kangaroo rat is found in arid parts of southwestern North America, including Death Valley, the Great Basin, the Mojave Desert, and portions of the Sonoran Desert.

Esther Charlotte Emily Weisbrodt Francis

It serves as a radar station operated by the National Guard to guide air traffic in the Great Basin region.

Francis Crowe Society

The society was founded in the fall of 2000 by Dean Larryl Matthews and named in honor of Francis T. Crowe, a Civil Engineer of the University's class of 1905 who designed 19 of the 'super-dams' in the Western United States that made farming possible in the Great Basin, the California Central Valley, Central Arizona and the Imperial Valley.

Intermontane Plateaus

In the Great Basin of western Utah and through most of Nevada, many of the blocks exhibit deformed structures involving folds and faults of relatively ancient (Jurassic) date.

James H. Simpson

In May 1859, he headed an expedition to survey a new route from Camp Floyd (south of Salt Lake City) across the Great Salt Lake Desert of Utah and through the Great Basin to Genoa, Nevada near California.

Jesse D. Jennings

During his career, he conducted research and trained students in sites in the Great Basin, the Glen Canyon of the Colorado River, throughout Utah, and in American Samoa.

Mottled sculpin

It is widespread from the Tennessee River north to Labrador, while separate populations are found in the Missouri River, the Columbia River system in southern Canada, and the Bonneville system of the Great Basin.

Tetradymia glabrata

It is native to the western United States, especially the Great Basin and Mojave Desert.

White-tailed Ptarmigan

Alternatively, it may have been unable to colonize the Sierra Nevada because of the barriers provided by the Columbia River and the Great Basin, and the low altitudes of the intervening South Cascades.


see also

Catherine S. Fowler

Fowler, Catherine S. and Don D. Fowler (eds.) The Great Basin: People and Place in Ancient Times. 2008.

Coast Survey

The great naturalist John Muir was a guide and artist on “Survey of the 39th Parallel” across the Great Basin of Nevada and Utah.

Great Basin Bird Observatory

Research projects conducted by the Great Basin Bird Observatory include several telemetry tracking projects of Elf Owl, Pinyon Jay, and Greater Sage-Grouse, and models of distribution, population densities, and habitat use for a large variety of birds of the Intermountain West and Southwest.

Mormon Trail

Young reviewed information on the Great Salt Lake Valley and the Great Basin, consulted with mountain men and trappers, and met with Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, a Jesuit missionary familiar with the region.

Western Nevada

Three rivers flow off the Sierras to the Great Basin — the Truckee River, Carson River and Walker River.