Saving Lake Tahoe: An Environmental History of a National Treasure

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191 i n t r o d u c t i o n 1. Deterioration in the water’s clarity was determined by a lake-bottom sediment core study a century later. Thomas Bachand, Lake Tahoe: A Fragile Beauty, 174; University of California, Davis, Docent’s Manual, “Reading History,” 45. 2. Larry Schmidt, “Comstock Logging Impacts in the Tahoe Basin,” unpublished manuscript (2012). o n e n c l e a r - c u t t i n g t h e g r a n d e u r 1. Barbara Lekisch, Tahoe Place Names: The Origin and History of Names in the Lake Tahoe Basin, 18–19, 72; Susan Lindstrom, “Submerged Tree Stumps as Indicators of Mid-Holocene Aridity in the Lake Tahoe Basin,” 146–57. 2. David C. Antonucci, Fairest Picture: Mark Twain at Lake Tahoe, 8. 3. Stuart Bruchey and Eleanor Bruchey, eds., “Report of the Public Lands Commission Created by the Act of March 3, 1879,” 606; Samuel Bowles, Across the Continent: A Summer’s Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States with Speaker Colfax, 165. 4. Lekisch, Tahoe Place Names, 11, 88; Douglas H. Strong, Tahoe: From Timber Barons to Ecologists, 20, 32. 5. William Ashburner to Samuel Bowles, November 1865, in Bowles, Across the Continent , 449. 6. Territorial Enterprise, March 25, 1875; Nevada State Journal, September 6, 1878, as cited in Bob McQuivey, “Summary of Lake Tahoe Basin Resources (1854–1976).” 7. For discussions of the Comstock’s role in building the West, see Michael J. Makley, The Infamous King of the Comstock: William Sharon and the Gilded Age in the West and John Mackay: Silver King in the Gilded Age. 8. Bruchey and Bruchey, “Report of the Public Lands Commission,” 424, 36, 88. 9. Despite the abuses, the act was not repealed until 1955, by which time some 2,899,000 acres had been patented in California. Samuel Trask Dana and Myron Krueger, California Lands: Ownership, Use, and Management, 42–43. 10. Makley, Infamous King of the Comstock, 34–35. 11. William S. Bliss, “Biography of D. L. Bliss,” n.d., Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection ; Grace Dangberg, Conflict on the Carson: A Study of Water Litigation in Western Nevada, 310. notes 192 n o t e s t o p a g e s 10–16 12. Lekisch, Tahoe Place Names, 55, 75; Douglas H. Strong, Tahoe: An Environmental History, 25. 13. Bruchey and Bruchey, “Report of the Public Lands Commission,” 606. As to the issue of purchasing timberlands, see the testimony of Judge J. W. North, Nevada’s first surveyor-general, in ibid., 131–32; Makley, Infamous King of the Comstock, 38, 70; and John S. Hittell, The Commerce and Industries of the Pacific Coast, 420. 14. Bruchey and Bruchey, “Report of the Public Lands Commission,” 606, 607. 15. E. B. Scott, The Saga of Lake Tahoe, 171–72; Lekisch, Tahoe Place Names, 48. 16. Lekisch, Tahoe Place Names, 8; Susan Lindstrom with contributions from Penny Rucks and Peter Wigand, “A Contextual Overview of Human Land Use and Environmental Conditions,” in Lake Tahoe Watershed Assessment, edited by Dennis D. Murphy and Christopher M. Knopp, 21–127, 65. 17. Sessions S. Wheeler with William W. Bliss, Tahoe Heritage: The Bliss Family of Glenbrook, Nevada, 34–35; Scott, Saga of Lake Tahoe, 212, 215. 18. Grant H. Smith, The History of the Comstock Lode, 1850–1920, 120, 256; Makley, Infamous King of the Comstock, 38; Makley, John Mackay, 61. 19. Scott, Saga of Lake Tahoe, 305–8. 20. Bruchey and Bruchey, “Report of the Public Lands Commission,” 606; Scott, Saga of Lake Tahoe, 14. 21. Smith, History of the Comstock Lode, 247; George H. Goddard in Scott, Saga of Lake Tahoe, 181. t w o n t r a d e s 1. Steve Raymond, The Year of the Trout, 205–19. 2. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Volume 15 for 1895, Marshall McDonald, Commissioner (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1896), 433. 3. Scott, Saga of Lake Tahoe, 51, 154, 165, 327, 329; San Francisco Call, January 24, 1913. 4. In 1899 a public campaign led to the designation of the acreage the Lake Tahoe Forest Reserve. In 1926 the secretary of agriculture designated some of this land as recreation area, and much of it became the Desolation Valley Wilderness Area by an act of Congress in 1969. Richard J. Fink, “Public Land Acquisition for Environmental Protection : Structuring a Program for the Lake Tahoe Basin,” 498...