The document provides observations from a geologist's field work in Death Valley and surrounding areas in California and Nevada. It describes recent rainfall filling lakes in Death Valley, crossbeds and pebble imbrication indicating past higher lake levels. It also mentions observations of coyotes, wildflowers, roads, unconformities, gas prices, and Joshua trees. Later areas discussed include Owens Lake which used to fill the area before Los Angeles diverted water, a conference center in the remote Zzyzx area, and dinosaur tracks found in the Mojave National Preserve.
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Essay: Karen Piper
Dreams, Dust and Birds: The Trashing of Owens Lake
Construction of the Jawbone siphon of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, 1912. [courtesy of the Joseph Barlow Lippincott collection, UC Berkeley Water Resources Center Archives]
Manufacturing Dust
The dry bed of what was once Owens Lake contains the detritus of Los Angeles’s fantasies. Starting in 1913, the City of Los Angeles, which historian Kevin Starr has called “the most exquisite invented garden in history,” gradually drained the enormous lake, located two hundred miles to the north of the city. [1] It was a monumental act of engineering: an aqueduct was constructed and then, like a garden hose that was picked up and moved, the Owens River was shifted, so that instead of watering Owens Lake it was watering Los Angeles. In this way the Owens River also began to supply an emerging area called “Hollywoodland,” its water used to create, in the arid landscape of Southern California, a version of the English Lake District. The river fed by the lake supplied 100 percent of Los Angeles’s water, and as a result the 110-square-mile lake gradually dried up and became a howling wasteland of toxic dust. The farmers of Owens Valley fought tenaciously to keep their lake and their river, even resorting to dynamiting the aqueduct (a drama depicted in Chinatown). But they lost.
I grew up near Owens Lake, and I breathed in its dust for close to 20 years. I remember that the experience of walking on the lakebed felt like walking on the moon, with its white crusty surface pocked by shadowy craters and peaks of crumbling crystallized salt. Unfortunately, this dust is not the kind that you can simply breathe out. It has been shown to embed itself in the lungs for life, and it is carcinogenic. In 1987 the Environmental Protection Agency declared Owens lakebed to be the worst dust pollution problem in the United States, affecting around 50,000 people. By then the dangers of this kind of fine dust were well known. But it's a complicated story, of course, and to those of us who have followed it — lived it — the decision about whom to help and whom to hurt had already been made, decades ago. In 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt decided that the waters of Owens River should go to Los Angeles because the city was where it would do the “greatest good for the greatest number.” “This water is more valuable to the people as a whole,” he said, “if used by the city than if used by the people of the Owens Valley.” [2] Over the decades the people of the Owens Valley came to understand that the “people as a whole” did not include us.
So when in the late '80s the EPA mandated that the City of Los Angeles fix the problem of the Owens Valley, and do so within ten years, this came as a surprise. But the ensuing events suggest that the kind of engineering ingenuity that had once made it possible to move the waters was unavailable decades later for the equally large-scale job of.
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Posted 01.24.11 | PERMALINK | PRINT
Essay: Karen Piper
Dreams, Dust and Birds: The Trashing of Owens Lake
Construction of the Jawbone siphon of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, 1912. [courtesy of the Joseph Barlow Lippincott collection, UC Berkeley Water Resources Center Archives]
Manufacturing Dust
The dry bed of what was once Owens Lake contains the detritus of Los Angeles’s fantasies. Starting in 1913, the City of Los Angeles, which historian Kevin Starr has called “the most exquisite invented garden in history,” gradually drained the enormous lake, located two hundred miles to the north of the city. [1] It was a monumental act of engineering: an aqueduct was constructed and then, like a garden hose that was picked up and moved, the Owens River was shifted, so that instead of watering Owens Lake it was watering Los Angeles. In this way the Owens River also began to supply an emerging area called “Hollywoodland,” its water used to create, in the arid landscape of Southern California, a version of the English Lake District. The river fed by the lake supplied 100 percent of Los Angeles’s water, and as a result the 110-square-mile lake gradually dried up and became a howling wasteland of toxic dust. The farmers of Owens Valley fought tenaciously to keep their lake and their river, even resorting to dynamiting the aqueduct (a drama depicted in Chinatown). But they lost.
I grew up near Owens Lake, and I breathed in its dust for close to 20 years. I remember that the experience of walking on the lakebed felt like walking on the moon, with its white crusty surface pocked by shadowy craters and peaks of crumbling crystallized salt. Unfortunately, this dust is not the kind that you can simply breathe out. It has been shown to embed itself in the lungs for life, and it is carcinogenic. In 1987 the Environmental Protection Agency declared Owens lakebed to be the worst dust pollution problem in the United States, affecting around 50,000 people. By then the dangers of this kind of fine dust were well known. But it's a complicated story, of course, and to those of us who have followed it — lived it — the decision about whom to help and whom to hurt had already been made, decades ago. In 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt decided that the waters of Owens River should go to Los Angeles because the city was where it would do the “greatest good for the greatest number.” “This water is more valuable to the people as a whole,” he said, “if used by the city than if used by the people of the Owens Valley.” [2] Over the decades the people of the Owens Valley came to understand that the “people as a whole” did not include us.
So when in the late '80s the EPA mandated that the City of Los Angeles fix the problem of the Owens Valley, and do so within ten years, this came as a surprise. But the ensuing events suggest that the kind of engineering ingenuity that had once made it possible to move the waters was unavailable decades later for the equally large-scale job of.
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This is the text of Leopold's essay "Come High Water" paired with beautiful images. This presentation can be used as a backdrop for public readings of the essay.
This is the article that was written by the good people over at Canoe & Kayak Magazine for their new SUP Magazine.
I was asked to help them organize a SUP trip on the Central Coast. What better place to do that than the Big Sur Coast.
Accompanied by the crew from Canoe & Kayak Mag and my friend Fletcher Burton this trip had everything. From trying to figure out where to actually put in with all the gear required for a multi trip SUP paddling adventure, to actually standing on a dead blue whale (NOT advisable!), to finding perfect 2-4 foot waves amidst the incredible scenery of rocky caves and alcoves.
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10. Owens Lake from Keeler, CA. The water that used to fill Owens Lake was basically stolen by Los Angeles in the early 1900’s via an aqueduct. The lake is now dry, with wicked dust storms and bitter residents.
12. Finally at Zzyzx for the NAGT Southwestern Section Conference—a bunch of CA and NV geologists gathering together to talk about geology. Below is an overhead view of the conference center, which was in the middle of nowhere.
13. Zzyzx spring has been used for centuries. In the 1940’s, someone tried to convert it to a desert resort and planted palms and built buildings and pools.
17. Here’s where we stayed. 12 to a room in bunk beds. The bathrooms were in a different building.
18. Have you seen the world’s largest thermometer? I have, and it’s in Baker, CA, at the Bun Boy Motel where Pam H. and the 2-live Field Geology crew will be staying one night during Spring Break.
19. Oh, yes, it’s gneiss! From the field trip into the Mojave Nat’l Preserve.
20. Check out the disconformity—basalt over conglomerate.