Notes
INTRODUCTION
âGod is in the detailsâ: attributed to Mies van der Rohe. http://architecture.about.com/od/20thcenturytrends/a/Mies-Van-Der-Rohe-Quotes.htm (July 2, 2012)
âIt is storming in the White Mountainsâ: Rexroth, âToward an Organic Philosophy,â 103.
âTo consider what is appropriateâ: Illich, âThe Wisdom of Leopold Kohr,â n.p.
âNo ideas but in thingsâ: W. C. Williams, âA Sort of a Song.â
âThus,â says Tyndall: Rexroth, âToward an Organic Philosophy,â 104.
COLLECTING THE DEAD
Do you ever find yourself: Abraham Lincoln as quoted in Burlingame, Lincoln, 300.
This tiny gill-breathing snail: Sada, Recovery Plan.
part of the areaâs rich fauna: Hershler and Sada, âSpringsnails of Ash Meadows.â
Pyrgulopsis is an old genus: Hershler and Liu, âAncient Vicariance.â
when groundwater pumping dried Longstreet Spring: Sada and Vinyard, âAnthropogenic Changes.â
The Tecopa pupfish . . . occurred: Miller, Cyprinodont Fishes.
âwhite, barren alkali flatâ: ibid., 37.
The Tecopa pupfish was last seen: Miller et al., âExtinctions of Fishes.â
Adult Tecopa pupfish: Miller, Cyprinodont Fishes.
104°F was âthe second highest recorded temperatureâ: ibid., 39.
Miller did not describe this species until 1984: Miller, âRhinichthys deaconi.â
The last known collection: Miller et al., âExtinctions of Fishes.â
âtwo narrow streams of clear waterâ: FrĂ©mont, Report of the Exploring Expedition, 266.
The Las Vegas dace probably persisted: Miller, âRhinichthys deaconi.â
Miller differentiated Las Vegas dace from: ibid.
âa delightful bathing placeâ: FrĂ©mont, Report of the Exploring Expedition, 266.
The last Ash Meadows poolfish: Miller et al., âExtinctions of Fishes.â
âOver the 6-year . . . greater numbersâ: Miller, Cyprinodont Fishes, 101.
Habitat alteration may have played: Miller et al., âExtinctions of Fishes.â
Ash Meadows poolfish were small: Miller, Cyprinodont Fishes.
Empetrichthys once ranged more widely: Uyeno and Miller, âRelationships of Empetrichthys erdisiâ; Smith et al., âBiogeography and Timing.â
Empetrichthys latos pahrump and Empetrichthys latos concavus: Miller et al., âExtinctions of Fishes,â 32â33.
groundwater withdrawals exceeded recharge: Comartin, âDevelopment of a Flow Model,â 1â2.
in the late 1960s biologists recognized: Deacon and Williams, âRetrospective Evaluation.â
The extinct Pahrump poolfish subspecies: Miller, Cyprinodont Fishes.
The largest patch of habitat: Miller, Cyprinodont Fishes.
This species occurred: Gong, âRana fisheri.â
âOur R. fisheri may go with the old springs goneâ: Wright and Wright, âNevada Frog,â 457.
These short-legged frogs: Gong, âRana fisheri.â
northwestern populations of the Chiricahua leopard frog: Hekkala et al., âResurrecting an Extinct Species.â
a combination of groundwater pumping: Gong, âRana fisheri.â
âa few semicroaks, which reminded meâ: Wright and Wright, âNevada Frog,â 456.
wet alkaline meadows: Bailey, âRevision of Microtus.â
âthe big salt marsh below Watkins Ranchâ: ibid., 423.
âblackish, but with a few overhairs tipped with reddishâ: Hall, âNevadan Races,â 423.
Last located by W. C. Russell: ibid.; Sada, Recovery Plan.â
A CULTIVATION OF SLOWNESS
The Inyo Mountains Slender Salamander
almost no barrier: Spight, âWater Economy.â
was not discovered until 1973: Marlow et al., âA New Salamander.â
Its distribution, as far as is known: Yanev and Wake, âGenic Differentiation.â
the family arose in eastern North America: Zheng and Wake, âHigher-Level Salamander Relationships.â
some 80 million years ago: ibid., 502.
Within the genus Batrachoseps: material on Batrachoseps evolution is from Jockusch and Wake, âFalling Apart and Mergingâ; Elizabeth Jockusch, personal communication, April 10, 2012.
two finer divisions: Wake et al., âNew Species of Salamander.â
Species in the larger lineage: Jockusch and Wake, âFalling Apart and Merging.â
a web-toed salamander in the genus Hydromantes: Ron Marlow, interview, December 5, 2010.
Mutational differences in the mitochondrial DNA: material from Jockusch and Wake, âFalling Apart and Mergingâ; Elizabeth Jockusch, interview, December 10, 2010; Elizabeth Jockusch, personal communication, April 10, 2012.
âhas inherited Californiaâs complex geologic historyâ: Elizabeth Jockusch, interview, December 10, 2010.
Large-scale uplift of the modern Sierra Nevada: Stock et al., âPace of Landscape Evolutionâ; Wakabayashi and Sawyer, âStream Incision.â There is some debate about the timing and rate of Sierra Nevada uplift; for dissenting views, see Wernicke et al., âOrigin of the High Mountainsâ; Mulch et al., âHydrogen Isotopes.â
Fossil trackways and skeletal material: Clark, âFossil Plethodontid.â
It wasnât until 3 to 4 million years ago: Phillips, âGeological and Hydrological History,â 139; Bachman, âPliocene-Pleistocene Break-up.â
a complex series of glacial advances and retreats: Hill, âGeologic Storyâ; Elliot-Fisk, âGlacial Geomorphology.â
ancient packrat middens, composed mostly of plant material: Grayson, Desertâs Past, 115â53.
âresembl[ing] blocks of asphaltâ: Spaulding et al., âPackrat Middens,â 60.
Members of the Manly Party: Grayson, Desertâs Past, 115â16.
Packrat middens in the Panamint Mountains: Woodcock, âLate Pleistocene.â
The most impressive of the recent eruptions occurred about 760,000 years ago: Phillips, âGeological and Hydrological History,â 130; Hill, âGeologic Story,â 52â58.
The early Holocene generally was cooler and moister: for information on Holocene climates in the Death Valley region see Grayson, Desertâs Past, 92â153; LaMarche, âHolocene Climatic Variationsâ; Lowenstein, âPleistocene Lakes.â
thirty-five genera of mammals: Grayson, Desertâs Past, 63.
Among the vanished species: ibid., 155â90.
aboriginal humans who arrived in the region: ibid., 235.
âjust screwing aroundâ: Ron Marlow, interview, December 5, 2010.
a new species of slender salamander: Brame, âA New Species of Batrachoseps.â
âItâs just what they doâ: Robert Hansen, personal communica...