Deep time in the Mono Lake Basin nature and history over the last 10,000 years Robert B. Marks

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marks, Robert B., 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mono Lake Watershed (Calif.)--History.

Mono Lake Watershed (Calif.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oakland University of California Press 2026

Summary:

Ten millennia in the Mono Lake Basin, showing how this complex ecosystem came to be what it is today. Nestled at the base of the Sierra Nevada in eastern California sits a stunning landscape overlooking a saline lake with picturesque tufa towers and flocks of phalarope birds. This is the Mono Lake Basin. In this sweeping history, Robert B. Marks examines the forces that have shaped the Mono Lake Basin's rich ecosystem. The

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Phalarope View

Part One: Changes in the Land

1. The Mono Lake Basin: Environment and Indigenous People

2. Miners, Settlers, and Farmers, 1857-1925

3. Never Ceded: Kootzaduka'a Dispossessed of Their Land, 1860-1900

4. Indian Land Allotments in the Mono Lake Basin, 1902-1929

Part Two: Changes to Water

5. Water, Power, and Fraud: Hydroelectric Power and Environmental Change, 1893-1923

6. Watersheds Manufactured: Environmental Change, 1924-1984

Part Three: From Ecological Crisis to Restoration

7. Trout and the Public Trust: Sinews of Environmental Recovery and Restoration, 1984-2025

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 17, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version :

Print version Marks, Robert B. Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin

ISBN:

9780520428591

0520428595

OCLC:

1584386379

Publisher Number:

CIPO000362802

Access Restriction:

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