Field journal, v4159
Page 349
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impson Nashoe Lake, Nevada May 10, 1932. Nashoe Lake was visited in the afternoon. An old road follows its eastern shore and the next road follows the western. The lake is very shallow and was very muddy (chocolate color) caused (I suppose) by the waves which were ruffling its surface. It has no islands. Last year it was practically dry. It is surrounded on north & east by several square miles of what appears to be recently drained quarch land, This marshland is full of hummocks which may have provided breeding grounds for waterfowl in years past. An artificial dike runs north from Nashoe to Little Nashoe Lake perhaps 2 miles. A high dike circles the lake on north & east. It looks too large to be an artificial dike yet its location would seem to indicate that it is. This latter dike follows the water's edge and shuts the water out of the dry marsh land. If it is a natural dyke water may have surrounded it in past years to have made white pelican breeding grounds. He saw 3 peleicans on the lake. A workman in the vicinity said he used to get ducks & geese on the lake, but none came any more. Only catfish are in the lake.