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the stream is a very rapid one willi nmny Ixmldcrs, lulls. r;ii)i(l,s. casCiKles. and pools. 

 In the meadow it flows with a yood strong- cuncnt. Its width here is ahont I'i to 1") 

 feet and the depth 10 to 15 inciies, witli numerous deeper jxhiIs. 'I'lic x-olunic is 

 about 7,320 gallons per minute. The hed of tlie stream in tiie meadow is (dean white 

 onivel with some black soil and decayed \eoetation in the still places. Both abo\c 

 and lielow the meadow the l)ed is chiefly granite or granite gravel and boulders. 

 About l.T) miles below the meadow the stream drops about 200 feet in a close series of 

 falls which tishes can not ascend. There is a beautiful cascade just below the meadow, 

 but it does not form an impassable barrier. From this point the stream descends 

 rapidly in a series of piitures(|nc rapids, cascades, and falls. 



Whitney Creek is tlie cleaiiesi. cleaiv-i. and coldest of all the creeks we exam- 

 ined, and, although an ideal tiout stream, ii is entirely without fish of any kind. 

 The lakes at its head (pi. ix, tigs. 23, 24, and 25) have an abundance of trout food, 

 consisting chiefly of entomostraca and insect la^rvse, and the larger ones should be 

 stocked with trout. The stream also was found to be well supplied with flsh food, 

 particularly in Crabtree Meadow and other quiet reaches. (PI. x, flgs. 26 and 27.) 

 Frogs were abundant all along the creek in all suitable places. The temperature of 

 the water at Crabtree Meadow at 6 p. m. July 27 was 56^^. Whitney Creek should 

 be stocked with trout from Volcano Creek, and the transplanting could be easily 

 accomplished. ' 



Rock Creek. — This creek has its various headwaters on the western slopes of 

 Mount Le Conte, Old Mount Whitney, and Cirque Peak, and flows west to Kern 

 River, which it enters about 5 or 6 miles south of the mouth of Whitney Creek. 

 From the north it receives a small tributary called Guyot Creek, and from the 

 meadows at Siberian Outpost (pi. vi, fig. 16, and pi. xiv, fig. 38) flows another some- 

 what larger creek, which joins Rock Creek a mile above the mouth of Guyot Creek. 

 (PI. XI, fig. 29.) All three of these creeks were examined, and no fish were found 

 in them. They could be easily stocked either from Volcano Creek or the South 

 Fork of the Kern. 



Volcano Creek." — On account of the marvelousl}- beautiful trout inhabiting 

 its waters, if for no other reason. Volcano Creek merits a sonunvbat full descrip- 

 tion. The course of the stream is peculiar. Its sources are on the slopes of Cirque 

 Peak and among the other cirques of the south end of the High Sierras. A numbei- 

 of small streams come together in and above a series of broad gi'assy meadows 

 south of Cirque Peak, forming Volcailo Creek, which flows slightly west of south 

 a distance of about 8 miles and then turns abruptly westward to pursue a more 

 winding course for about 8 miles farther before joining Kern River opposite Soda 

 Spring. 



The sources arc at an elevation of 10,000 to 13,000 feet. The ujjper course is 

 through a succession of small mountain meadows, the larger ones formeidy called 

 " Whitney Meadows," but now known as "Volcano Meadows." Except in the more 



"This creek on some maps and elsewhere has been calle'l \VliitiK> Ciei-k. a name applied to it when the mountain 

 now called Sheep Mountain, or Old Mount Whitney, was th.nmln im !.,■ tlir real Mount Whitney. When itwasfound 

 that this stream does not rise near either Mount Whitney or c il^l Mmhtii Whim, y the name Whitney Creek was transferred 

 to the stream described above under that name, and the naim- • \'nl,iin.i Cn-.k" was adopted for this stream. In some 

 publications it has been called Golden Trout Creek. The United States Board on Geographio Names hasadopted the name 

 Volcano Creek, which therefore becomes Ills) recognized official name. 



