Notes
INTRODUCTION
“God is in the details”: attributed to Mies van der Rohe. http://architecture.about.com/od/20thcenturytrends/a/Mies-Van-Der-Rohe-Quotes.htm (July 2, 2012)
“It is storming in the White Mountains”: Rexroth, “Toward an Organic Philosophy,” 103.
“To consider what is appropriate”: Illich, “The Wisdom of Leopold Kohr,” n.p.
“No ideas but in things”: W. C. Williams, “A Sort of a Song.”
“Thus,” says Tyndall: Rexroth, “Toward an Organic Philosophy,” 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 area’s rich fauna: Hershler and Sada, “Springsnails of Ash Meadows.”
Pyrgulopsis is an old genus: Hershler and Liu, “Ancient Vicariance.”
when groundwater pumping dried Longstreet Spring: Sada and Vinyard, “Anthropogenic Changes.”
The Tecopa pupfish . . . occurred: Miller, Cyprinodont Fishes.
“white, barren alkali flat”: ibid., 37.
The Tecopa pupfish was last seen: Miller et al., “Extinctions of Fishes.”
Adult Tecopa pupfish: Miller, Cyprinodont Fishes.
104°F was “the second highest recorded temperature”: ibid., 39.
Miller did not describe this species until 1984: Miller, “Rhinichthys deaconi.”
The last known collection: Miller et al., “Extinctions of Fishes.”
“two narrow streams of clear water”: Frémont, Report of the Exploring Expedition, 266.
The Las Vegas dace probably persisted: Miller, “Rhinichthys deaconi.”
Miller differentiated Las Vegas dace from: ibid.
“a delightful bathing place”: Frémont, Report of the Exploring Expedition, 266.
The last Ash Meadows poolfish: Miller et al., “Extinctions of Fishes.”
“Over the 6-year . . . greater numbers”: Miller, Cyprinodont Fishes, 101.
Habitat alteration may have played: Miller et al., “Extinctions of Fishes.”
Ash Meadows poolfish were small: Miller, Cyprinodont Fishes.
Empetrichthys once ranged more widely: Uyeno and Miller, “Relationships of Empetrichthys erdisi”; Smith et al., “Biogeography and Timing.”
Empetrichthys latos pahrump and Empetrichthys latos concavus: Miller et al., “Extinctions of Fishes,” 32–33.
groundwater withdrawals exceeded recharge: Comartin, “Development of a Flow Model,” 1–2.
in the late 1960s biologists recognized: Deacon and Williams, “Retrospective Evaluation.”
The extinct Pahrump poolfish subspecies: Miller, Cyprinodont Fishes.
The largest patch of habitat: Miller, Cyprinodont Fishes.
This species occurred: Gong, “Rana fisheri.”
“Our R. fisheri may go with the old springs gone”: Wright and Wright, “Nevada Frog,” 457.
These short-legged frogs: Gong, “Rana fisheri.”
northwestern populations of the Chiricahua leopard frog: Hekkala et al., “Resurrecting an Extinct Species.”
a combination of groundwater pumping: Gong, “Rana fisheri.”
“a few semicroaks, which reminded me”: Wright and Wright, “Nevada Frog,” 456.
wet alkaline meadows: Bailey, “Revision of Microtus.”
“the big salt marsh below Watkins Ranch”: ibid., 423.
“blackish, but with a few overhairs tipped with reddish”: Hall, “Nevadan Races,” 423.
Last located by W. C. Russell: ibid.; Sada, Recovery Plan.”
A CULTIVATION OF SLOWNESS
The Inyo Mountains Slender Salamander
almost no barrier: Spight, “Water Economy.”
was not discovered until 1973: Marlow et al., “A New Salamander.”
Its distribution, as far as is known: Yanev and Wake, “Genic Differentiation.”
the family arose in eastern North America: Zheng and Wake, “Higher-Level Salamander Relationships.”
some 80 million years ago: ibid., 502.
Within the genus Batrachoseps: material on Batrachoseps evolution is from Jockusch and Wake, “Falling Apart and Merging”; Elizabeth Jockusch, personal communication, April 10, 2012.
two finer divisions: Wake et al., “New Species of Salamander.”
Species in the larger lineage: Jockusch and Wake, “Falling Apart and Merging.”
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, “Falling Apart and Merging”; Elizabeth Jockusch, interview, December 10, 2010; Elizabeth Jockusch, personal communication, April 10, 2012.
“has inherited California’s complex geologic history”: Elizabeth Jockusch, interview, December 10, 2010.
Large-scale uplift of the modern Sierra Nevada: Stock et al., “Pace of Landscape Evolution”; Wakabayashi and Sawyer, “Stream Incision.” There is some debate about the timing and rate of Sierra Nevada uplift; for dissenting views, see Wernicke et al., “Origin of the High Mountains”; Mulch et al., “Hydrogen Isotopes.”
Fossil trackways and skeletal material: Clark, “Fossil Plethodontid.”
It wasn’t until 3 to 4 million years ago: Phillips, “Geological and Hydrological History,” 139; Bachman, “Pliocene-Pleistocene Break-up.”
a complex series of glacial advances and retreats: Hill, “Geologic Story”; Elliot-Fisk, “Glacial Geomorphology.”
ancient packrat middens, composed mostly of plant material: Grayson, Desert’s Past, 115–53.
“resembl[ing] blocks of asphalt”: Spaulding et al., “Packrat Middens,” 60.
Members of the Manly Party: Grayson, Desert’s Past, 115–16.
Packrat middens in the Panamint Mountains: Woodcock, “Late Pleistocene.”
The most impressive of the recent eruptions occurred about 760,000 years ago: Phillips, “Geological and Hydrological History,” 130; Hill, “Geologic Story,” 52–58.
The early Holocene generally was cooler and moister: for information on Holocene climates in the Death Valley region see Grayson, Desert’s Past, 92–153; LaMarche, “Holocene Climatic Variations”; Lowenstein, “Pleistocene Lakes.”
thirty-five genera of mammals: Grayson, Desert’s Past, 63.
Among the vanished species: ibid., 155–90.
aboriginal humans who arrived in the region: ibid., 235.
“just screwing around”: Ron Marlow, interview, December 5, 2010.
a new species of slender salamander: Brame, “A New Species of Batrachoseps.”
“It’s just what they do”: Robert Hansen, personal communica...