High in the Sierra Nevada, straddling the border between Nevada and California, you"ll find the largest alpine lake in North America, Lake Tahoe—sometimes called Big Blue. Seventy-two miles in circumference, with an average depth of 1,000 feet, it has the sixth-largest volume of any lake in the US—only the Great Lakes are larger. For at least 6,000 years, the territory of the Washoe people centered around Lake Tahoe, but the arrival of non-native people in the 19th century led to a series of armed conflicts and eventual loss of land to farms and townships.
The Big Blue of the Sierra
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
D-Day remembered
-
Bluespotted ribbontail ray
-
Holidays in the Venetian Lagoon
-
World Meteorological Day
-
Happy 50th for the National Trails System!
-
Cecil Brewer Staircase, London
-
Gazing upon Portraits of Change
-
League of Nations, 100 years later
-
A path into history
-
A new park with a new mission
-
Darwin s Arch
-
Welcome to the Year of the Pig
-
Daylight saving time
-
It’s Endangered Species Day
-
Here we honor the women who ve served
-
Listening to the sea
-
The lemurs of Madagascar
-
Three cheers for polar bears!
-
World Space Week
-
Gamboa Crater, Mars
-
Springtime in the Mediterranean
-
A Portuguese fort takes a star turn
-
Shark Fin Cove, California
-
Haghartsin Monastery, Armenia
-
Summer winds down in the Hamptons
-
Punakaiki on South Island, New Zealand
-
Flying high on National Bird Day
-
The ‘Living Forest’ in Biscay, Spain
-
Breaking the fast for Eid
-
Penn Station