Sagehen Photos...

Sagehen makes its photo archives available free of charge for research & education purposes with the provision that users will help us stay in business by:

• notifying the station in advance of download,
• submitting a reserve use application &
• complying with station use requirements

No commercial use is allowed without written permission from the credited photographer. Information about some images is limited. Please contact the station if you have information or additional images to share.

Basin scenics

Maps:

• "Google Earth" coordinates.
• GIS data
• NCS Monument Network (more info here)
• Digital Geologic Map of the northern Lake Tahoe-Donner Pass Region, northern Sierra Nevada, California:
  • Large image
  • Small image
  • Sagehen-Independence image
  • More info
  • Photos of 2006 field work in the N. Fork of the American River.
  • Photos of 2007 field work in Sagehen & Independence Basins.
• Field maps of the basin:
  • B & W shaded relief map (1.08M).
  • Color shaded relief map (1.17M).
  • Basin topo (1.53M).
• Station location & sensing network maps.

Aerial imagery of Sagehen basin & surrounding areas:

• Aerial image of Sagehen Basin from 2005 DOQ [600 dpi -95MB PDF]
• 1978 (Reg Barrett collection)
• 1987 (Reg Barrett collection)
• 1988 (Reg Barrett collection)
• 1993-winter (Reg Barrett collection)
• 199?-winter (Tom Kucera collection)
• GIS image layers

The US Forest Service, Truckee Ranger District has aerial imagery of Sagehen from the following years:

Contact Carrie Smith for more information.

Sagehen People

Research

• Pump & drain transects, 1951

Structures:

• Construction: spring-summer 2004
• Construction: East Cabin
• Construction: Fish house & diversion weirs

Animals:

• Birds
  • Scott Crosbie collection
• Insects
• Mammals
  • Black Bear
    • Building a den
    • Reintroduction of orphaned cubs
    • Tracking cubs to den
  • Beaver
  • Coyotes
  • Marmots
  • Northern Flying Squirrels
  • Pine Martens
    • Den sites
    • Evidence: scat, tracks, etc.
    • Mortality
    • Radio-collaring & tracking
    • Track plates
    • Trapping
  • Racoons
  • Weasels
• Reptiles & amphibians
• Fish

• Sagehen Teacher Resources Wiki: links to sources of royalty-free images.
• Wikimedia Commons

Reg Barrett collection.

• Buildings
• Calhoun line trapping
• Carpenter ridge
• Kiln Meadow

Sagehen's 50th + Anniversary Reunion,
August 19-22, 2004. More info.

• Jerry Booth collection
• Jeff Brown collection
• Bill Nisbet collection
• Max & Carol Schreiber collection
• Locating old stream transects with Dick Gard

• Chickering Reserve tour
• Sagehen basin tour

• Conifers (Al Grigarick, 2012).
• Flowering plants by color (Al Grigarick, 2012. Includes new Jepson taxonomy).
  
  
  • Blue to Violet flowers
  • Red to Pink flowers
  • White to Green flowers
  • Yellow to Orange flowers

Info | Key [list]: Use the Key [list] to locate 4-character flower ID numbers, then look for photos in appropriate color section:

• Rxxx=red-pink.
• Bxxx=blue-violet.
• Wxxx=white-green.
• Yxxx=yellow-orange.

Note: some images are duplicated with titles by family to provide better searching by keyword (use search link below).

More:

• Sagehen's plant lists.
• More Sagehen flower photos.
• Sensitive plants & fungus: Please help us identify sensitive species within the basin & larger Tahoe Forest by notifying the Station Manager if you are aware of occurrences of any of the species on this list .
• USDA Plant Database: good site for photos & for identifying changed plant names.
• Cal Photo: lots of great open-source plant photos.

• Sagehen Fish house.
• Master Plan, 2008.