Volume 6 October 29, 1910 



MUHLENBERGIA 



PLANT DISTRIBUTION ON THE TRUCKEE-CARSON 

 PROJECT, FALLON, NEVADA 



By P. Beveridge Kennedy 



This immense valley, in many ways different ftom others 

 in the state, is being- so rapidly settled with farmers, that it 

 would seem advisable to have on record the more important 

 plants that form the native vegetation on the different kinds of 

 soils. 



The area of the project is about forty miles from Derby on 

 the west to Stillwater on the east, and about the same distance 

 from Carson lake on the south to the Carson sink on the north. 

 The rivers utilized for the supply of water for the project are 

 the Truckee and Carson. The former rises at Lake Tahoe in 

 the Sierra Nevada mountains, and rapidly winds its way down 

 the eastern side of the range until it reaches the Trnckee valley, 

 passing through Reno, and continuing eastwardly through the 

 Virginia mountains by way of the Truckee Pass. On the east- 

 ern side of the Pass the government has constructed an immense 

 diverting dam and canal which takes the waters in a southeast- 

 erly direction, and almost opposite to the natural flow of the 

 river, which a few miles further down, at Wadsworth, changes 

 its course directly northward and empties into Pyramid lake. 



The Carson river comes also from the Sierra Nevada moun- 

 tains, but farther south, traversing the Carson and Eagle valleys, 

 in which the towns of Carson and Gardnerville are situated, and 

 passing through the Virginia mountains by way of Dayton and 

 Churchhill to the Truckee-Carson project. From Churchhill it 

 crosses the project in a northeasterly direction, spreading out 

 into numerous sloughs and bottoms, one branch passing near 

 Fallon and going directly to the Carson sink, while another 

 tends in a southerly direction to Carson lake. A branch known 



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