Our Vanishing Wilderness; 4; The Slow Death of the Desert Water

move that fresh water that goes on and it's if you take it the creek is a deception religion freedom of death for their is walk into the receiving praise a and down below you were you late loses one good song rare louie louie it's been the pittsburgh is back in the winter of eighteen forty four captain john c

fremont and in exploring party have been winding through the craggy sun bleached mountains of western nevada late one day they find a hollow to see what lay beyond a mile he wrote a defiled descended rapidly about two thousand feet and filling up all of our space with a shakeup green wonders of the ocean in a desert lake pyramid lake name for the great robert eastern shore this is what we could tell about it now before it sinks further or even disappears forever a story about water inland where there just isn't enough and the whole island in the pyramid lake and this is with a woman who's come in spring and in this group when the sanctuaries safe from predators island schumer's was growing up the group's touring with a

thousand troops and their team because there is always the scavenger bills in north america they numbered twenty thousand now they're less than exciting spring now and there's still water enough for the fish that the latest entrance of the truckee river widens into a broad flat lens for centuries lee

a half hour nina keneally is an open dinner invitation to the goals of movies and see the song playing with the calls to groups of elegance and mostly driven away these miners

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same place in the immediate vicinity nesting site is a barren desert i heard as the girls these leaders have to leave it on a vast swaths of flat gray who it went to a humanism and there's a lot of slack recently moved he really listens his parents sued over eggs and chicks in feel from the song john jackson or eggs are matched pairs both wearing grade camouflage that makes an almost visible from a distance nice

nice here don't have assured trespasses of the small character is in him kicks the only been a violent response nice nice right these little ones the red spot on the lower because the adult is a definite target for next in this life there is natural and three more dangerous in the west is our square and competition over water and there's precious water

so the river water that winds its way through a lot of demands territory before it ever comes to this remarkable lake leaving in the desert a great competition that's for the birds a battle already threatened by a lot of other things that end in an eyelash in paris conservationists sure most excited because this is their land their way there's been dramatic change my name is warren told me lake indian reservation as a minion to mourn or the child has a beautiful lake with a stroke of this large beige and louise and construction of a bird hit them up the river it's going on at least three feet each year an indian named peterson poncho seasonally or commencing in

nineteen twenty four and ending in nineteen twenty eight seventy er the presently unused to that we're talking about a long talk not so long ago this desert to just over the ridge was a gem of green water that there that when i'm awake happened in nineteen thirty eight was source for a nice body a worst question about twenty eight thousand and it was that or you're like whoa i went away and they can eat and the agent really like so dangerous patients pyramid lake is the only place in fountains of the world their fresh water spawned the truckee river that feeds lake is not to show for them to even draw even lucre like this goes fast for the spring flood we try again and again

here when fremont gamer world cups also became extinct in the end thirty eight that was the last time that they were seen trying to run a curator of a couch in here now than they were artificially had it all in a mature rating five it seemed a good idea for the river for appointments irrigation before the water reached the indians when one goes into work truck the builder began innocently

enough to stabilize pyramid lake that the truckee river begins one hundred miles away in the cs california nevada border is one of this goes from like calmer in kabul has right with your side to seal the back from the banks of the truths that is being polluted by wastes by debris but it was a cascade corporation dredging and filling in the way of building was broadcasting tons of modern soul into a longer christie were dollars a source of surface water review the carson city starts and all those thirsty places to meet and here does a race for the green acres of the tricky course

irrigation district an agreement made a long time ago as a district manager will take a college paper this news of this water and we contend that the violence that one the government contends the only solace the right views now you're an indian affairs chairman late prime of communism now here we feel that we have a private mortgage water or four i'm not going to say they do or don't use this is something i think that the courts will have to determine when the time comes because there is a court decree on the river and all we're doing is taking our degree right was never any degree water for lake city for several years now a two state task force has been trying to grapple with the problem of waterford pyramid lake in knowing others on the way so far they've come up with nothing that they consider him a popular phrase economically feasible

hardly anybody agrees on anything except the pyramid lake has been receiving end there isn't enough water has a pitcher gotten a piece of the truckee river passes the interest of the lakers too shallow for fishing them like pelicans and all i want to go on long trips thirty miles over sage brush desert to a place called stoller wildlife refuge of constant streams and marshes in stillwater has always been said to date mostly by the groundbreaking runoff from the trucking carson irrigation district where he worked with the us bureau of sport fisheries and wildlife managers will still water cannons on and all depend on those marshlands where they're breeding grounds during the later part of the nesting season

maintain the pelican population in this area we have to have both a nesting site in the feeding grounds this is a place for many water projects the amazon is a freshwater birds leaders five year digging atlanta was a slightly salty brackish water republicans wanted to see big groups who really is flap their wings to stroke the waters near those small corp jobs report i'm your mammals to activists who lives in one of the bigger

predators attracted by the above us again at the site of a coyote a clear and present danger you have samples into a remarkable act called the broken window she says contrary to try to draw the predator to her in the lead for the eggs and you know she didn't get away at the last minute if she had to this case the coyotes doesn't work i water is life here you'll find a great blue heron and what makes stilts only proves

what we will require that feeding directorate now the two things you need we need water is life but larry ward looks for trouble even if the water is available assuming that that that we can keep enough water and pyramid lake to maintain the island as an island an hour or so you know we can do something about the land bridge that they form in thirty years or so to keep others from coming on the island

and assuming that the birds don't run into too much trouble with pesticides and they're wearing rounds in mexico or california is the greatest the uncontrolled increasing public use projections a tremendous public use that permit like that supporting voting you and fishing the future than and less these people were years old was in the everyday voter rolls burst of a longshoreman in the nesting sites

still incapable of white loaf along the shorelines learned to swim bike share they weren't using apple as a nesting site and increasing public views frankly is exactly what the indians want their land they're like why shooting indians for change profit from their own thorsten vacation parents who have a great political possibilities were planning to develop or in europe for the past eight years in ramallah and successful and i think it is to being a lake winnebago in common in coming in order and all in all embrace to the web of spiders it with a female there is a dragon flies she'll suffer prager audit or a courageous so much smaller he doesn't dare come here except for a careless maybe

auburn break apart young pelicans so close to the water and all these months suddenly as it sounds ordering an american actor and how do you save it for their thoughts about saving pyramid lake we have been behind the words save it's not really known it and how far away can for one point while i got lost i was never into clean water for you like as i said they tried to

do as they get near the irrigation drill wells the population growth fell unions to forget it in the taskforce ever hope to satisfy the needs of all the people and the while intelligence can affect they do what they do flap in widely and running on the surface of the truth is that we live in this desert at the expense of the wildlife in there because there is a limit to the amount of water that can be supplied by lake tahoe has a scheme to bring water to america's parched west and the art of the rock

india believes police department you used to lead to any money and the comets would do the same little egypt later own wicked tricks most of the young of the car recall me and until such drive by an epidemic of tiny voracious bugs the mere presence of a warm body works like a magnet drawing the bugs up from the cavernous on rocks beneath the mists the adults were not affected they write themselves as such posts like diving into the

water and they will be back to try again next year and republicans who were in california and mexico to return next year maybe filled with pesticides meanwhile if the water level drops the land bridge under the channel will eventually be exposed to predators on the mainland will be able to cross and finish the pelicans quickly just one of the tragedies and the slow death of the desert walker oh thanks bye

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