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	Great Basin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Basin is not a single basin, but rather a series of contiguous watersheds, bounded on the west by watersheds of the Sacramento-San Joaquin and Klamath rivers, on the north by the watershed of the Columbia-Snake, and on the south and east by the watershed of the Colorado-Green.
		In 1986, the Great Basin National Park was established by the Federal Government, encompassing 122 square miles of land in Nevada, near the Utah border.
		The Great Basin is traversed by major long-distance railroads and expressways, such as the parts of Interstate-80 between Reno and Salt Lake City, Interstate-15 between California and Idaho, and Interstate-70 between its junction with Interstate-15 in Utah and westmost Colorado.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Basin (1625 words)

	Great Basin - LoveToKnow 1911
		The plateau "lowlands" in the centre of the Basin are approximately 5000 ft. in altitude.
		The largest of all, Great Salt Lake, is maintained by the waters of the Wasatch and associated plateaus.
		In the Pleistocene period many large lakes were formed within the Great Basin; especially, by the fusion of small catchment basins, two great confluent bodies of water - Lake Lahontan (in the Nevada basin) and Lake Bonneville (in the Utah basin).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Great_Basin (1153 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Great Basin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Great Basin is a large, arid region of the western United States, commonly defined as the contiguous watershed region, roughly between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, that has no natural outlet to the sea.
		The Great Basin Culture Area, home to the Great Basin tribes also extends further to the north and east than the hydrographic basin.
		The discovery of gold in California in 1848 brough waves of emigrants across the Great Basin along the California Trail, which followed the Humboldt River across Nevada.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Great_Basin (1203 words)

	Great Basin Lowlands text (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Great Basin's salt desert is one of the great biological frontiers of life's colonizing advance.
		The wetlands of the Great Basin are varied, and important to migratory water fowl beyond all proportion to their actual territorial extent.
		Especially critical examples of Great Basin wetland areas include the Bear River estuary on the Great Salt Lake in Utah's West Desert, the Malheur and Harney Lake region in Oregon, the Ruby Marsh and Franklin Lake areas in Ruby Valley, eastern Nevada, Pyramid and Walker Lakes in western Nevada, and Mono Lake in eastern California.
	greatbasinnaturalhistory.org /Lowlands/great_basin_lowlands_text.htm (2840 words)

	Great Basin
		The Great Basin is defined by hydrology and physiography.
		In terms of geological plate tectonics, the Great Basin may be viewed as a series of north-south trending, linear, fault-block mountain ranges occupying the distance between the Sierra crest and the Wasatch Front.
		The Great Salt Lake is a remnant of Lake Bonneville, while Pyramid Lake and Carson Sink (the western terminus of the Humboldt River) are remnants of ancient Lake Lahontan.
	historytogo.utah.gov /utah_chapters/the_land/greatbasin.html (1460 words)

	Great Basin National Park Information Page
		Great Basin is a hydrologic region where all precipitation, whether in the form of rain or snowmelt, that occurs in the region stays in the basin where it either evaporates or filters down into underground aquifers never reaching the ocean.
		Great Basin National Park is one of the newest national parks in the U.S. Great Basin was set aside on 27 Oct 1986 by President Ronald Regan.
		Great Basin National Park will be monitoring the areas in which cattle are no longer grazing to try and understand the changes in the vegetation and the watershed that will ensue.
	www.great.basin.national-park.com /info.htm (3287 words)

	Great Basin--Mojave Desert Region
		The eastern boundary of the Great Basin- Mojave Desert region is sharply defined by the high elevations of the Wasatch Mountains and the Colorado Plateau.
		This zone is extensive throughout the Great Basin south of the Humboldt and Truckee river drainages and is sparse in the northern Lahontan River basin; it disappears altogether in Oregon.
		In conjunction with the cessation of livestock grazing on the Hart Mountain and Sheldon national wildlife refuges in the northwestern Great Basin, a long-term study was initiated in 1991 to examine the relation of bird populations to riparian habitat recovery (Dobkin 1994b; Dobkin et al.
	biology.usgs.gov /s+t/SNT/noframe/gb150.htm (14767 words)

	Great Basin / High Desert - Ecoregions - Sierra Club
		Left behind was a vast, arid, high-elevation basin, with deep canyons and steep, north/south-trending mountain ranges, piercingly cold in winter and blisteringly hot in summer.
		Today the Great Basin/High Desert is a region of wild beauty and extreme ecological fragility, sparsely populated and seemingly desolate.
		For these reasons, enlarging Great Basin National Park and designating additional wilderness and park areas are high on the Sierra Club's list of programs for protecting and restoring the region.
	www.sierraclub.org /ecoregions/greatbasin.asp (569 words)

	Great Basin travel guide - Wikitravel
		The Great Basin is that portion of the United States, comprising most of Nevada and portions of California, Oregon, Idaho and Utah, which does not drain to the sea.
		The Great Basin is characterized by a series of north-south running mountain ranges separated by relatively flat basins.
		Due to the "rain-shadow" effect from the Sierra Nevada, the Great Basin is very arid, with annual precipitation varying from approximately 4 inches per year to 10 inches per year, although the highest peaks can see significantly more precipitation.
	wikitravel.org /en/Great_Basin (454 words)

	Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem Team
		The USFWS Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem Team is comprised of participation by the 43 field stations in the Great Lakes ecosystem and represent a range of Service programs that work to restore and protect the Nation's trust resources, including migratory birds, threatened and endangered species, and interjurisdictional fisheries.
		The Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem Team is focusing much of its efforts on the basin-wide issues of lake sturgeon, invasive species, and coastal habitat restoration and the conservation of migratory birds, endangered species, and island environments.
		Great Lakes Lake Sturgeon Tributary Database and Geographic Information System (GIS) is an interactive GIS application that allows you to search for sturgeon information by tributary.
	www.fws.gov /midwest/greatlakes (251 words)

	Great Basin National Park - Great Basin National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
		Come to Great Basin National Park to experience the solitude of the desert, the smell of sagebrush after a thunderstorm, the darkest of night skies, and the beauty of Lehman Caves.
		Far from a wasteland, the Great Basin is a diverse region that awaits your discovery.
		The Great Basin is a desert, with low relative humidity and sharp drops in temperature at night.
	www.nps.gov /grba (469 words)

	Great Basin National Park \| GORP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Altitude determines scenery in Great Basin, and above the valleys, rising thousands of feet from the sagebrush sea, the mountain ranges form a sort of high-elevation archipelago; sky islands of cooler air and abundant water that harbor a rich variety of plants and animals.
		From desert basins to glaciers tenaciously clinging to the flanks of Wheeler Peak, Great Basin serves up a rich variety of backdrops for hikers, mountain bikers, anglers, and wildlife lovers.
		There are roads aplenty in Great Basin, but if you want to soak in the best views in the park and see what a difference elevation can make, steer your SUV onto Wheeler Peak Scenic Drive, which takes you to the campground perched high on the 13,063-foot mountain.
	www.gorp.com /gorp/resource/US_National_Park/nv_great.HTM (826 words)

	Great Basin
		Great Basin, semiarid, N section of the Basin and Range province, the intermontane plateau region of W United States and N Mexico.
		Great Basin: Economy - Economy Although Nevada and Utah experienced significant growth in the 1970s and 80s, the Great...
		Great Basin: Land - Land The region is a complex topographic basin, the surface of which is broken by numerous...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/us/A0821650.html (176 words)

	Great Basin Heritage Route Home Page
		The region is named the Great Basin because no water drains to the sea; instead it evaporates into the open sky or disappears into the ground.
		Geological forces stretching the earth’s crust have formed a unique "Basin and Range" topography characterized by numerous north-south trending mountain ranges separated by valleys that were once filled with lakes.
		Islands of diversity rising into the sky, the mountains of the Great Basin, are surrounded by a sea of desert.
	www.greatbasinheritage.org (427 words)

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		Great Basin Basketmakers is a guild whose members create a wide variety of traditional and contemporary baskets.
		Mary Lee presented a slide show at the Reno-Sparks YWCA in January, 1987 and the Great Basin Basketmakers (GBB) was born.
		Recent accomplishments include the publication of a book detailing the various natural basketmaking materials that grow in the Great Basin region, along with illustrations, tips for harvesting and storage recommendations.
	www.greatbasinbasketmakers.org (185 words)

	Great Basin Spiritualism and Religion
		In the Great Basin, as in many other parts of the Western United States, there are few mythic characters in human form; virtually all mythic characters, especially those possessing primal power in the disposition of the world and life, are in animal form.
		This female character is common to the Basin and is either a malevolent person who has eaten all of her former (human) mates or one who has teeth in her genitals, making intercourse precarious.
		In the Great Basin, the spirit was usually imagined passing along the Milky Way to this land.
	www4.hmc.edu:8001 /humanities/basin/gb-spirt.htm (2582 words)

	Nevada - Great Basin National Park
		Varied wildlife zones and great views over distant mountain and desert scenery make this a pleasant change from the featureless grey-green, sagebrush-covered plains that stretch over much of the state, and the park has another unusual attraction in the Lehman Caves, a cavern system with many beautiful limestone formations.
		The foothills of the park are at an elevation of 6,000 feet - part of the Great Basin Desert of Nevada, an area dry for most of the year and characterised by long wide valleys interspersed by narrow mountain ridges running generally north-south.
		Scattered groves of bristlecone pines occur at elevations around 10,000 feet, and one specimen has been dated to be 4,950 years old, competing with similar trees in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California to be the oldest known living object on Earth.
	www.americansouthwest.net /nevada/great_basin/national_park.html (452 words)

	Home Frameset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Great Basin is a land of great variety and contrasting character.
		As a result of this, the basin ranges tend to be biologically isolated from each other by an arid sagebrush ocean in a manner not unlike islands being isolated from each other by vast stretches of the sea.
		As a result, the Great Basin's mountain ranges tend to be very diverse biologically, many having associations of plants and animals sometimes differing from nearby ranges, and many harboring species found nowhere else. The Great Basin's Ranges are truly moist islands in an arid sea.
	www.greatbasinnaturalhistory.org /home_frameset.htm (1288 words)

	Great Basin Heritage Area Partnership
		The Great Basin Heritage Area Partnership is a grass roots organization incorporated as a non-profit 501 (c)3 organization in the States of Nevada and Utah.
		It works toward preserving the heritage of that central area of the Great Basin which includes Millard County, Utah; White Pine County, Nevada; the Duckwater Shoshone Reservation;and the Ely Shoshone Reservation.
		Designation by Congress of a Great Basin National Heritage Area/Route would be a healthy intellectual and economic development for the people of the area.
	www.greatbasinheritage.org /partnership.htm (309 words)

	Dewatering
		Infiltration basins, such as these at South Pipeline, are a necessary means of returning the water removed from aquifers for mining to the aquifers.
		Throughout the Humboldt River basin, the mining industry will cause a deficit of 5,000,000 acre-feet of water; it will require at least two centuries to recover.
		In the Humboldt River basin, there will be approximately 1,500,000 acre-feet of water in pit lakes.
	www.greatbasinminewatch.org /dewatering.html (304 words)

	The Great Lakes
		The mission of the Great Lakes Program (GLP) is to coordinate the development, evaluation and synthesis of scientific and technical knowledge on the Great Lakes Ecosystem in support of public education and policy formation.
		The Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER) is a consortium of researchers at the University of Windsor.
		Established in 1981, the institute's research is directed toward the understanding, restoration, rehabilitation and protection of strategic ecological systems in the Great Lakes region.
	www.great-lakes.net /lakes (1298 words)

	Great Basin Federal Credit Union - Other Services
		Use your Great Basin Federal Credit Union Debit card at any of our locations or nationwide at a CO-OP ATM, all surcharge free!* Reno, Sparks, Carson City and Minden have over 20 CO-OP ATMs for your use.
		Great Basin Federal Credit Union awards one scholarship per academic year in the amount of $1,000.
		Great Basin Federal Credit Union has teamed up with MEMBERS Financial Services to offer various investment solutions.
	www.greatbasin.org /otherServices.htm (201 words)

	Great Basin Chapter - Trout Unlimited
		The Great Basin Chapter of Trout Unlimited's mission is to conserve, protect, and restore the Great Basin's native and coldwater sportfish and conservation fisheries and their aquatic-riparian watersheds.
		TU offers 10 membership categories which allow individuals and businesses to contribute to TU's mission at the conservation support levels of their choosing.
		Great Basin Chapter Trout Unlimited responsible for all site content.
	www.greatbasintu.com (233 words)

	Great Basin National Park - DesertUSA
		From the sagebrush desert at its alluvial base to the 13,063-foot summit of Wheeler Peak, Great Basin National Park includes 5 ecological zones, which include streams, lakes, alpine plants, abundant wildlife and a variety of forest types including groves of ancient Bristlecone Pines.
		Part way up the eastern flank of Wheeler's Peak, behind the Visitor Center, is the entrance to Lehman Caves, a marble-limestone solution cavern famous for the diversity of its decorated passages and galleries extending deep into the mountain.
		Great Basin National Park is a mountain park.
	www.desertusa.com /grb (383 words)

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