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	Humboldt Sink - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is located between the West Humboldt Range (to the southeast) and the Trinity Range (to the northwest), on the border between Pershing and Churchill counties, approximately 50 mi (80 km) northeast of Reno.
		A channel connecting it with the Carson Sink was cut by the Nevada Department of Transportation in 1984 to prevent Interstate 80 and the town of Lovelock from flooding due to heavy snowfall in the preceding three years.
		The sink, along with the Carson Sink are remnants of the larger prehistoric Lake Lahontan that existed at the end of the last ice age, approximately 13,000 years ago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Humboldt_Sink (241 words)

	The Prairie Traveler - Itinerary V.
		On Humboldt River - Grass and water poor all the distance to the Sink of the Humboldt.
		Sink of Humboldt River - The water at the Sink is strongly impregnated with alkali; the road generally is good.
		At the Big Meadows, 23 miles from the Sink of the Humboldt, travelers should make a halt of a day or two to rest and recruit their animals and to cut grass for crossing the desert, as this is the last good camping-place until reaching Carson River.
	www.kancoll.org /books/marcy/mai05txt.htm (923 words)

	Nevada - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		The principal rivers of Nevada are the Humboldt, Truckee, Carson, Walker, Owyhee, and Colorado.
		The irrigated croplands are concentrated mainly in the Humboldt Valley; in the Carson River area near Fallon; in the central part of the Walker Valley; and in the central Truckee Valley.
		Ogden is generally credited with discovering the Humboldt River, and he was the first white man to follow it from its source to its sink.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761551699___0/Nevada.html (11421 words)

	Humboldt Sink. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Humboldt Sink, Pershing and Churchill cos., W Nev., N of Carson Sink, c.30 mi/48 km N of Fallon; 11 mi/18 km long, max.
		Intermittently dry lake bed fed by Humboldt R. from NE; has no outlet.
		Humboldt L. is body of water at center of sink.
	www.bartleby.com /69/2/H05902.html (88 words)

	USGS Nevada -- Humboldt Hydrology: Summary of Progress -- Oct. 1996
		Streamflow of the Humboldt River and its tributaries and ground water are used by diverse, and sometimes competing, interests in the basin.
		Increases in the flow of the Humboldt River and one of its tributaries, Maggie Creek.
		The purpose of this study is to describe ground-water conditions in the middle Humboldt River Basin in spring 1982 and spring 1996.
	nevada.usgs.gov /humb/prog96.htm (2378 words)

	Nev Humboldt
		The Humboldt River, the largest watershed in Nevada, terminates in the Humboldt Sink in Pershing and Churchill Counties, except in years when the Humboldt Sink floods and discharges into the Carson Sink, such as in 1998.
		Wetlands in and near the Humboldt Sink provide important nesting, foraging, and resting habitat to large numbers of migratory birds.
		Early detection of potential biological effects is critical because of the terminal nature of the Humboldt River system, the persistence of trace elements in the environment, and the previous identification of adverse biological effects caused by inorganic contaminants in wetlands at the terminus of the river.
	www.fws.gov /pacific/ecoservices/envicon/pim/reports/Reno/Humboldt.htm (677 words)

	Humboldt - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		HUMBOLDT [Humboldt] river, c.300 mi (480 km) long, rising in several branches in the mountains of NE Nev. It meanders generally west to disappear in Humboldt Sink, W Nevada.
		Most of the towns of N Nevada are located on the river in a valley used by a major highway and railway as an east-west route.
		Near Lovelock the Humboldt project of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is served by the Rye Patch Dam (completed 1936), which impounds water for irrigation.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/h/humboldtr1.asp (267 words)

	USGS Humboldt Hydrology Study Proposal
		The Humboldt River rises in northeastern Nevada between Wells and Elko and flows west and southwest nearly 1,000 miles until it terminates in the Humboldt Sink near Lovelock.
		The spatial and temporal variability of spring discharge in the middle Humboldt River Basin are related to the hydrogeology, hydroclimatology, and ground-water use in the basin.
		The upper Humboldt River Basin is the source of ground-water and surface-water discharge to the Humboldt River that eventually enters the middle Humboldt River Basin Any comprehensive analysis of water resources in the middle Humboldt River Basin requires an understanding of the contribution from the upper basin.
	nevada.usgs.gov /humb/proposal.htm (4446 words)

	Humboldt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Humboldt Current or Peru Current of the Pacific
		Humboldt Museum of Natural History (Museum für Naturkunde), part of the University
		Humboldt State University, Humboldt County, California (named for the county where it is located)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Humboldt (205 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Great Basin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Humboldt Sink - Nevada (drainage of the Humboldt River, the longest river in the Great Basin)
		Some of the water that does not evaporate sinks into the ground to become ground water.
		The region became successively organized by the creation of the Oregon Territory in 1848, the admission of California to the Union in 1850, and the creation of the Utah Territory in 1850.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Great_Basin (1203 words)

	Oregon-California Trails Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Here we see our last of the famous Humboldt and I must agree with the majority of the Emigrants in nicknaming it "Humbug River." The stream itself does not deserve the name of river being only a good sized creek....
		By the time the emigrants reached the Humboldt Sink, most were happy to bid the hated river goodbye, despite the fact that they knew they now faced a long haul across the desert and then the final climb over the Sierra Nevada.
		It is usually the last water found on the Humboldt, or where it loses itself in the sand, hence its name, but this year the water is so high that it runs down several mules further before it entirely sinks.
	www.octa-trails.org /JumpingOffToday/VirtualTour/HumboldtSink.asp (322 words)

	Humboldt Project Title Transfer: Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The responsibility for the operation and maintenance of the Project was transferred from the Bureau of Reclamation to the Pershing County Water Conservation District in 1941.
		Of this total, 32,000 acres are located within the Humboldt Sink, and 14,000 acres are located along the perimeter of and beneath Rye Patch Reservoir.
		The Bureau of Reclamation withdrew lands within the Humboldt Sink to avoid the responsibility of flood damage that might occur due to project operations.
	www.pcwcd.com /background.htm (1893 words)

	Hardly a High School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		By the time it empties into the Humboldt Sink west of Lovelock it has taken on so much alkali it is awful to drink.
		Humboldt is its name today but there for awhile no one really knew what to call it.
		Once, when Ogden’s fur laden horses were stolen by nearby trappers (her baby was strapped to one of animals), she jumped on her horse and galloped to the thieves’ camp where she grabbed her child and one of the pack animals then rode away.
	www.rabbitbrush.com /hickson/Humboldt.html (451 words)

	The Arcata Educational Farm could benefit from a constructed wetland by furthering the intent of education and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Greywater from the sink at CCAT is gravity fed through a pipe to the primary screen and settling tank.
		This group of photos shows the sink where vegetables and dishes are washed at the Arcata Educational Farm.
		Top photo is of the sink plumbed into the new site for the constructed wetland with a box of wetland plants resting at the top.
	www.humboldt.edu /~farm/studentprojects/hls21/index.html (1080 words)

	CARSON PHOTOS
		To the east is the Humboldt Sink where the Humboldt River ends.
		After leaving the Humboldt sink, the emigrants had 40 miles of the kind of desolation shown in this photo to cross before reaching the Carson River near Ragtown.
		This section of the historic California Trail was opened from the Sink of the Humboldt River to the Carson River at Ragtown in the fall of 1848 by a wagon train of emigrants captained by Joseph B. Chiles.
	www.emigranttrailswest.org /crscenes2.htm (1901 words)

	Living Lakes Partnership Lake of the Month--Holocene Remnants of Lake Lahontan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Humboldt Sink is often joined with the Carson Sink during wet periods, and is at the end of the Humboldt River, which drains much of central and western Nevada.
		Stillwater Marsh, in the Carson Sink, is at the terminus of the Carson River, which has its headwaters in the watershed just south of Lake Tahoe.
		This harmony of human communities with the landscape was dramatically altered upon the arrival of white settlers.
	www.livinglakes.org /month/1-lahontan.htm (1275 words)

	humboldt - Ask.com Web Search
		Humboldt State University is the northernmost campus of the California State University system.
		Humboldt State University: The northernmost California State University is a great place to live and learn.
		The Humboldt Botanical Gardens Foundation was organized by a small group of people in 1991.
	search.ask.com /web?q=humboldt (236 words)

	Cadets sink Wildcat girls, 57-51 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cammy Matters of Humboldt pulls up before passing in recent action in the Humboldt gym.
		Humboldt went scoreless in the next four minutes and couldn't close the gap in the final two minutes.
		Humboldt, 5-9 overall, 4-8 in NCC play, hosted Webster City on Jan. 24th.
	www.humboldtnews.com /News/2006/0126/Sports/0300.html (684 words)

	Wyoming 2000 - Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Humboldt is 350 miles long and cuts diagonally across the state, heading directly for Sacramento.
		Here, at the Humboldt Sink, for the first time after 1700 miles on the trail, the pioneers found they had no river system to follow.
		At the Humboldt Sink they met a Paiute Indian they named Truckee who led them west across the desert to a river that eventually led to a small lake at the foot of the Sierra.
	www.bdt.com /david/wyot.html (1186 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Humboldt Project Conveyance, Pershing and Lander Counties, NV
		Reclamation began the Project construction in 1935, and in 1941 the first water was delivered to the agricultural lands from storage in Rye Patch Reservoir.
		The Humboldt Sink is also part of the Project and is managed by the State of Nevada under a management agreement with Reclamation.
		Reclamation is preparing an EIS to analyze the action of conveying title of the Humboldt Project and associated lands to several entities.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2003/February/Day-26/i4456.htm (633 words)

	8 Little Humboldt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Four remnant populations of Lahontan trout can be found in the Humboldt River of northern Nevada, the only major basin entirely within Nevada, flowing south and east from mountains in northeastern Nevada before vanishing into the Humboldt Sink in western Nevada.
		The South Fork Little Humboldt is home to one of these four populations, but perhaps not for long.
		The habitat is getting worse, according to the Bureau of Land Management, and Oro Vaca, the Colorado company that grazes cattle on both private and public land in the basin, has resisted efforts to protect it.
	www.wcei.org /Articles/BigDry/littlehumboldtriver.html (472 words)

	Columbia and Great Basin Divide, Elko County, Nevada
		As an aside, keep in mind that the Humboldt River and Sink were named for Alexander Von Humboldt and I believe the Carson Sink was named for Kit Carson (see time-line page).
		Divide is at an elevation of 6480 feet, the creek that forms Taylor Canyon drains west to the Columbia River Basin and the creek that drains Telegraph Flat drains east to the Humboldt Sink
		Divide is at an elevation of 6360 feet, Summit Creek drains east to the Columbia River Basin and Willow Creek drains west to the Humboldt Sink
	www.elkorose.com /columbia.html (713 words)

	Science - Grade 4
		The learner will be able to investigate and describe balance points of different objects.
		The learner will be able to investigate and describe how objects can sink or float in water.
		The learner will be able to investigate and describe properties of materials when they are combined (mixtures).
	www.humboldt.k12.nv.us /designer/CR35843.HTM (438 words)

	Nevada Waterfowl Association - NWA -
		Contributions from other participating organizations resulted in full funding of the approximately $40,000 needed to complete construction of the islands in 1993 while the Humboldt Sink remained dry.
		Participated in the initial planting of the 25 nesting islands built in the Humboldt Sink.
		** The Humboldt Sink Nesting Island Project was a special fundraising drive to raise money to build at least 25 nesting islands in the Humboldt Sink** while it was dry.
	www.nevadawaterfowl.org /projects/index.shtml (496 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Mines big source of mercury pollution, reports show
		Four mines, all in the Humboldt River watershed, reported releasing an estimated 13,560 pounds of mercury in 1998.
		The water authority is a coalition of county government officials that looks out for their constituents' interests in the Humboldt River.
		"The Humboldt Sink is the cesspool of the Humboldt River.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2000/mar/02/509930676.html (783 words)

	The Press and Spanish-American Relations in 1898
		The Journal called it "The Worst Insult to the United States in its History," reprinted the letter in full and the next day called de Lôme "abusive." De Lôme himself had been immediately recalled in order to prevent more embarrassment for Madrid after Spain learned the letter would be publicized.
		Now it seemed the extraordinary public reaction to the sinking of the Maine was forcing the president to consider making new demands of the Spanish government.
		In the "Local Happenings" section of the April 12, 1898 Humboldt Times, it was noticed that it had been 27 years to the day that Fort Sumter had been bombarded and the American Civil War began.
	www.humboldt.edu /~jcb10/spanwar.shtml (5800 words)

	October 1846 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Now the truth is that the team was "Stalled" on a sand bank on the Humboldt river; it was Reed's team; Snyder was driving Greavs team next to Reeds behind Reed was on the off side of his team assisting his man to get the team to pull.
		The Trail left the Sink of the Humboldt and crossed the Forty Mile Desert, over the foothills north of Desert Peak (5,365') and south of Juniper Peak (7,209') to Boiling Springs, now called Brady's Hot Springs, a distance of about 20 miles.
		Eddy knew to be untrue, for he had himself filled Brinn's cask at the sink of Ogden's river; Brinn finally admitted that he had water, but said he did not know how far water was yet distant from them, and he feared that his own family would require it.
	members.aol.com /danmrosen/donner/oct46.htm (7854 words)

	TW - Calif Trail Photos
		This segment of the emigrant trail stretches from the beginning of the trail at the Raft River in southern Idaho to the Humboldt Bar in Nevada.
		The Humboldt River is shown to the left and in the center of the photo.
		As the California Trail approached the Humboldt Sink after leaving Big Meadows the trail passes though the alkali flat north of the sink.
	www.emigranttrailswest.org /cscenes2.htm (594 words)

	Trace the Watershed
		Discuss the variations in water amount of to be found in the river and tributaries as a function of elevations and season of the year.
		It might be interesting to calculate the drop in elevation between various areas along the Humboldt, to reinforce the fact that water flows down hill.
		Use a topographic map of the area to compare the elevation at a source of a tributary of the Humboldt River to that at the Humboldt Sink, for example.
	www.nbmg.unr.edu /dox/e32/trace.htm (866 words)

	The Donner Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Then they crossed through a sink where a hard crusty surface broke through sandy salty slush beneath, which was also very hard to drag the heavy wagons through.
		On September 30, the Donners finally reached the Humboldt River and the joined the main California Trail.
		After reaching the Humboldt Sink on October 13, the Indians shot 12 more oxen.
	members.aol.com /Gibson0817/donners.htm (3067 words)

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