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Pyramid Lake is within the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Reservation. Day use permits are required.

p. 22: "CHANGES IN THE LAKES The surface of Pyramid Lake is gradually lowering while there is a corresponding rise in waters of Winnemucca Lake. Stockmen vaqueros say the change becomes very evident they ride along the shores and see bluffs where decade ago there was a gentle slope and as look at the pyramid in the center of the lake to present more volume above the tide level. Twenty five years ago the rocks where the surf beat and left an undying mark are to-day a mile from the water. The stakes to which Indians tied their boats stand in regular line, one below another and serve as marks of shoreline water receded year after year. Finally, at periods of about five years the waves threw gravel and shells which formed a kind composes ridges in succession clear around the lake."

A.J. Liebling, "The Mustang Hunters," The New Yorker, April 3, 1954 and April 10, 1954. See also Horses.

NASA, Astronaut Photography of Earth - Display Record ISS015-E-15145
"Photographs of the High Rockies," p. 32, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Spring, 1972. Image of Pyramid Lake reproduced from Harpers Weekly, 1869. The title is incorrect, these are images of Nevada from the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel by King.
Harold W. Fairbanks, "Pyramid Lake, Nevada," Popular Science, March 1901.

http://www.longcamp.com/pyramid.html www.longcamp.com/pyramid.html -- Frémont, January 14, 1844. We encamped on the shore, opposite a very remarkable rock in the lake

http://www.nv.nrcs.usda.gov/news/ www.nv.nrcs.usda.gov/news -- Nevada NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Service) News, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and Partners Work to Restore Abandoned Mine

http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2003/03/19/37188.php www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2003/03/19/37188.php RGJ 3/19/2003 Sacred place vs. recreational space, Outdoors buffs sometimes miss the meaning of American Indian sites

http://nevadaobserver.com/Reading%20Room%20Documents/alligator_in_pyramid_lake_1860.htm The Alligator in Pyramid Lake, Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine, November 1860

http://are-we-there-yet-travels.com/?p=70 White Pelican Migration at Pyramid Lake, Nevada

Avery Winnemucca, Sutcliffe," ca. 1936, UNRS-P1995-41-054, Special Collections Department, University of Nevada, Reno Libraries.

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 Pyramid Lake is within the [[Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe]] Reservation. [http://www.pyramidlake.us/pyramid-lake-permits.html Day use permits] are required.
+[https://encrypted.google.com/books?id=rJA8AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA52&ots=jm0c0kBPGX&dq=Goodwin%20%22Salt%20Marsh%22%20nevada&pg=PA21#v=onepage&q=winnemucca%20lake&f=false General history and resources of Washoe County, Nevada, published under the auspices of the Nevada Educational Association]." (1888):
+* p. 22: "CHANGES IN THE LAKES The surface of Pyramid Lake is gradually lowering while there is a corresponding rise in waters of [[Winnemucca Lake]]. Stockmen vaqueros say the change becomes very evident they ride along the shores and see bluffs where decade ago there was a gentle slope and as look at the pyramid in the center of the lake to present more volume above the tide level. Twenty five years ago the rocks where the surf beat and left an undying mark are to-day a mile from the water. The stakes to which Indians tied their boats stand in regular line, one below another and serve as marks of shoreline water receded year after year. Finally, at periods of about five years the waves threw gravel and shells which formed a kind composes ridges in succession clear around the lake."
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