Walker Lake

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Walker Lake,

salt lake, c.105 sq mi (270 sq km), W Nev., SE of Carson City. Fed by the Walker River, it is a remnant of prehistoric Lake Lahontan and has no outlet.

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They examine the histories of four of these rivers: the Walker, the Truckee, the Carson, and the Humboldt as well as three of the many lakes: Lake Tahoe, Pyramid Lake, and Walker Lake. Their history begins with explorer John Charles Fremont, and the journals and official map of the 1843-44 expedition he led through the region.

Historic Nevada Waters: Four Rivers, Three Lakes, Past and Present

Senior editor Mark Cheater visited Walker Lake last spring to report this story.

Dry Times at Walker Lake - A vital wildlife oasis in the sagebrush desert of western Nevada is fast disappearing

But private forces, many close to the Bush administration, are willing to look at Walker Lake the way Norton does the Klamath River, and let the resource die.

Reclaiming the commons; privatization has plenty of cheerleaders, but does it work? (Ways & Means)

This research focuses on one of Nevada's four terminus lakes, Walker Lake, which often is thought to be dying, having lost approximately 130 feet, or about 75%, of its volume since 1880.

Can recreation values for a lake constitute a market for banked agricultural water?

From the Walker Lake area, the Nevada-headquartered Drone America flight team flew more than 39 miles to deliver a package to the Hawthorne Industrial Airport in Hawthorne, Nevada.

Drone America completes longest UAV package delivery flight in the US

For centuries the glistening waters of Walker Lake in west-central Nevada have hosted huge flocks of waterfowl and nurtured the Lahontan cutthroat trout, which once grew to a hulking 40 pounds.

Incredible shrinking lake. (Lay Of The Land)

The lake was restocked in the 1950s with Lahontan cutthroat from Walker Lake. Then in the 1970s, the Paiute Tribal Council set up four hatcheries around the lake and on the Truckee.

Cool-weather angling for cutthroat trout at Pyramid Lake, Northeast of Reno

Subsequent tests were conducted at an area east of Walker Lake around six miles from the airport.

Nevada UAS test site tests advanced artificially intelligent unmanned aerial system

The company has completed a total of fifteen drill holes along 2.3 kilometres of the Walker Lake Trend which hosts the high grade Three Bluffs gold deposit.

North Country Gold completes spring drilling programming at Three Bluffs Project