Chris Clarke (canislatrans) Writing and photography from the Mojave and Sonoran deserts by Chris Clarke. The Berkeley Ecology Center killed Terrain a couple years ago.
I visited the office a year ago and the one remaining staff person that remembered me apologized profusely, as if I’d be offended that they axed the journal I’d walked away from 16 years earlier. Honestly, I think it was inevitable. I’m surprised it didn’t happen a whole lot sooner. The center never really knew what to make of the publication, at least while I was editing the thing. They didn’t kill the publication while I was working there, so I win. Terrain was the monthly publication of the Ecology Center, at least during my tenure. But it was a monthly while I was there, which means that from June 1992 through that last issue in October ’97, I put out 62 issues of Terrain. It was a hellacious amount of work for almost no pay in a larger organization that was remarkably dysfunctional at the time, so my outward reminiscences since leaving have tended toward the gripe end of the spectrum.
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The landscapes that are the soul of North America are being threatened. What do you cover? But the deserts aren’t barren. ReWild. Fisheries biologist Corene Luton measures a Lahontan cutthroat trout as it moves through the fish passage facility at Marble Bluff Dam, Nevada | Photo: USFWS/Flickr/Creative Commons License Great news from the Truckee River: Pyramid Lake's population of Lahontan cutthroat trout has been seen spawning in the river for the for the first time since 1938.
And it's only due to a lucky break that the Pyramid Lake population of cutthroats hasn't been extinct since then. The Lahontan cutthroat trout, Oncorhynchus clarki henshawi, is named for the patch of bright red that appears under its chin during spawning season. It once swam in lakes and streams all up and down the east side of the Sierra Nevada. Pyramid Lake's population, which provided early 20th-century anglers with record-breaking catches weighing up to 41 pounds, ranged from that brackish desert lake north of Reno all the way up the 121-mile-long Truckee River to Lake Tahoe. Flat-tailed horned lizard | Photo: Jim Rorabaugh/USFWS.
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