Resource List: Celebrating the Owens River Headwaters Presentation

Owens River Headwaters + Wild and Scenic River Info:

ORH National Wild and Scenic Page
https://www.rivers.gov/rivers/owens.php

Mammoth to June Ecosystem Management Plan, 1996
https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-43/VOL_II/VII_C50.PDF

Forest Service Owens River Headwaters Planning, 2020
https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=57325

Summary of Initial Wilderness Proposal, 2009
https://friendsoftheinyo.org/book/owens-river-headwaters-proposed-wilderness-addition/

The River Network
https://www.rivernetwork.org/about-us/

 

More info on LADWP and Owens River: 

Podcast on the Owens River and LADWP: Series of Stakeholder Interviews
https://thereitistakeit.org/

 

Info on First People in the Owens River Headwaters:

Northern Paiute Language Project
http://paiute.ucsc.edu/#three

Bishop Paiute Tribe
http://www.bishoppaiutetribe.com/

The Archaeology of CA-MNO-2122: A Study of Pre-Contact and Post-Contact Lifeways Among the Mono Basin Paiute
By: Brooke Arkush, 1995 (book)

 

Info on Meadows: 

Meadows in the Sierra Nevada of California:
https://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/psw_gtr084/psw_gtr084.pdf

Meadows in Yosemite National Park
 https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/nature/meadows.htm

Meadows and Headwaters
https://www.americanrivers.org/2017/03/headwaters-matter-natural-infrastructure/

Sierra Meadows Partnership
https://www.sierrameadows.org/meadows-matter

 

Info on Geology:

Mammoth Lakes Sierra by Genny Smith (book)

Sierra East: Edge of the Great Basin by Diana Tomback, Ann Howald, Harold Klieforth, and Genny Smith (book(

Study on White Wing Mountain Tree Ring Dating
Late Holocene forest dynamics, volcanism, and climate change at Whitewing Mountain and San Joaquin Ridge
https://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/millar/psw_2006_millar027.pdf

Info on Obsidian, Glass, and Deadman Creek Domes
https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/long-valley-caldera/long-valley-caldera-field-guide-obsidian-dome

 

Wildflower ID:

Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada by John Muir Laws (book)