Few places in my travels have come to mean as much to me as the Great Basin. Several posts on this blog including Turning the Pages of a Mountain and My Own Finding Everett Ruess are about wonderings through some section in or around the Great Basin. Consequently, I took High Country News' post entitled "Las Vegas Bets Big On Rural Water" with a bit of heartache. Plans are made to allow the shuttling of water out of five basins of origin and into Las Vegas. What the impact could be on the people, plants and wildlife of the southeastern Great Basin is beyond my area of expertise to predict. The watersheds included in this plan are home to rural Nevada towns, Great Basin National Park and cattle pasture. The best I can do is share what the area affected by this plan looks like. It is my hope that through these images some greater understanding of what it has come to mean to me is better understood.
Great Basin National Park
Wah Wah Mountains, Utah. These mountains are just East of the watersheds affected by the plan. The Wah Wah range certainly shares the look and feel of many parts of the southeastern Great Basin.
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