Landscape, water, and outdoor recreation in the eastern Sierra Nevada

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English

Bibliographic Citation

The California Geographer 3: 41-46

Notes

The Sierra Nevada has appropriately become one of the major natural attractions in the western United States and assumes great importance in the outdoor recreation industry of California. This is due to some obvious factors-marvelous scenery, vast expanses of primitive mountain land, and large nearby population centers. But within local Sierran regions, less obvious qualities of the natural scene sometimes exercise considerable influence over the popularity and use pattern of an area. Such is the case with the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, where a minor physical change along the mountain crest has caused profound differences of landscape and hydrography to occur. These differences have, in turn, caused two contrasting patterns of recreational land use to exist side by side. Although these physical differences have been briefly noted in geologic and hydrographic reports, and are readily discernible from detailed topographic maps the resultant land use patterns have not heretofore been described in the literature. The data in this report were collected by the author while doing field work in the Owens River drainage area during 1960.

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Landscape, water, and outdoor recreation in the eastern Sierra Nevada