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Map Satellite Approximately 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) downstream from the Bridgeport Reservoir, the East Walker River broadens and slows to form a pond several hundred meters long and 10 to 20 meters wide.
A portion of the pond is open water, but most of it is a riparian habitat typical of the western Great Basin. Tules, Scirpus sp., are dominant in the sluggish water portion and along the banks there is a dense stand of willows, Salix sp.
A variety of birds is found in the area and the pond is used by migrating waterfowl, including Western grebe, Aechmophorus occidentalis.
Integrity: A highway skirts the western side of the pond, a stockdrive the eastern, but the vegetation is virtually undisturbed.
Use: Research, educational, observational.
December 1979
Inventory of California Natural Areas
Revision © 2009 Steven Louis Hartman
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