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sierra nature notes sierra nature notes the online journal of natural history news in the sierra nevada american pika are thriving in the sierra nevada and southwestern great basin rock formations buffer pika from warming temperatures summary of distribution and climatic relationships of the american pika ochotona princeps in the sierra nevada and western great basin u s a periglacial landforms as refugia in warming climates constance millar and robert westfall usda forest service pacific southwest research station sierra nevada research center 800 buchanan st western annex bldg albany ca 94710 usa vulnerability of pika habitat to global warming has been an escalating concern causing speculation that the range of suitable pika habitat will contract upward in elevation as lower elevation site temperatures increase millar and westfall s recent study suggests there may be good news for the ever adorable pika the natural summer cooling and winter warming of their rock pile homes may be protecting them from climate change collapse why do the salmon continue to disappear from our mother lode rivers craig a will where have all the salmon gone fewer chinook salmon returning from the ocean to spawn in the rivers means that fishing will be closed for two successive years what happened and what role might tuolumne and calaveras counties play in restoring the salmon fishery algae in the sierra nevada wilderness areas robert w derlet m d 1 kemal ali ger ph d 2 university of california davis 1 2 john muir institute of the environment 1 school of medicine 2 dept of environmental science and policy fifty percent of california s water comes from the sierra nevada mountains once pristine lakes and streams are increasingly subject to increased algal growth and eutrophication as a result of human caused nutrient loading derlet and ger examine the many sources for these excessive nutrients poorly managed livestock grazing causes major impacts to water wildlife and recreation on the stanislaus forest central sierra environmental resource center cserc cattle grazing on public lands is increasingly being recognized as a source of pathogens entering our water supply as well as causing a wide variety of ecological impacts cserc examines some of these issues on the stanislaus national forest winter carnivore survey finds that wolverines gulo gulo are likely extirpated from sequoia kings canyon national parks brian r hudgens david k garcelon institute for wildlife studies po box 1104 arcata ca 95518 hudgens iws org confirmed photos of a wolverine at a bait station at lake tahoe created a flurry of publicity and hope that perhaps this rarest of california carnivores was making a comeback a study done in sequoia and kings canyon national parks recently suggests that the california population anyway may be gone trans sierra nevada crest national parks a proposal to expand parklands robert w derlet md professor of medicine school of medicine university of california davis sacramento ca charles goldman ph d professor environmental science policy university of california davis davis ca to protect california s increasingly scarce wildlands and water sources as well as expand recreational opportunities for california and the nation the authors propose a set of new national parks in the sierra stretching from mt lassen in the north to the kern river in the south an analysis of the 7 july 2004 rockwell pass ca tornado highest elevation tornado documented in the us john p monteverdi et al san francisco state university san francisco ca tornados near mt whitney in july of 2004 a funnel cloud was observed forming over rockwell pass elevation 11 600 feet in sequoia canyon national park just north of mt whitney it was also photographed touching down recent analysis shows this to be the highest elevation tornado observed in the us the article is in pdf and requires adobe reader continue to previous articles our founder mt lyell salamander hydromantes platycephalus questions go to about our new site masthead photo from kaweahs from trailcrest kings canyon national park 2009 howard weamer