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Paiute Cutthroat are native only to Silver King Creek, a headwater tributary of the Carson River in the Sierra Nevada, in California. This subspecies is named after the indigenous Northern Paiute peoples. [5] [6] Paiute cutthroat trout are endemic to and protected within the Carson Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
The Carson–Iceberg Wilderness supports a native population of the only Paiute cutthroat trout in existence in the drainages of Silver King Creek, a tributary of the East Fork Carson River. They were listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966 and upgraded to threatened status in 1973 with the passage of the ...
The Carson River is a northwestern Nevada river that empties into the Carson Sink, an endorheic basin.The main stem of the river is 131 miles (211 km) long [4] although the addition of the East Fork makes the total length 205 miles (330 km), traversing five counties: Alpine County in California and Douglas, Storey, Lyon, and Churchill Counties in Nevada, as well as the Consolidated ...
The East Fork Carson River is the largest tributary of the Carson River, flowing through California and Nevada in the western United States. The north-flowing river is 61 miles (98 km) long [ 3 ] and drains a mostly rural, mountainous watershed of 392 square miles (1,020 km 2 ).
Clear Creek is a 13.5 miles (21.7 km) long stream which begins at 8,780 feet (2,680 m) on the southern slopes of Snow Valley Peak (Toiyabe National Forest, Carson Range) west of Carson City. It is the only perennial tributary of the Carson River mainstem, and is protected by The Nature Conservancy .
Amargosa River; Bruneau River; Carson River; Colorado River; East Walker River; Humboldt River; Huntington Creek; Jarbidge River; Kings River; Little Humboldt River
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The Carson Sink was a deep portion of the Pleistocene water body Lake Lahontan, [5] the lakebed of which is now the Lahontan Basin.. The Carson Trail, used during the California Gold Rush across the Lahontan Basin, included a section through the Forty Mile Desert to the first drinkable water on the Carson River. [6]