Talk:Goose Lake (Oregon–California)

message: I'm not sure how best to incorporate this (perhaps a quote), but this link contains interesting history of a church near Goose Lake, and baptisms performed there: http://ncbible.org/nwh/OrLake.html Jyoshimi 21:39, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I suspect the New Pine Creek page would be a more relevant place for this information; it definitely needs something: New Pine Creek, Oregon. Downstrike (talk) 12:03, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to historic church 

message: Wasn't there a large paddle boat of some sort that plied the lake? I think there may even be a left over hulk of it? ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:46, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Quite a number of ferries, cargo, and excursion craft sailed Goose Lake at various times between the 1920s and 1940s. Downstrike (talk) 12:43, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Boating

message: This Goose Lake seems to be rather isolated from the region described as Walker Lane.  Isn't the Goose Lake associated with Walker Lane more likely to be the one near Fallon, NV?  If Walker Lane does indeed extend this far north, Surprise Valley seems to be a much more likely candidate, as it much more of a geological trough, and is associated with an eastern escarpment, while Goose Lake Valley is not. Downstrike (talk) 11:43, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The USGS says that Walker Lane extends into south-central Oregon. But from the topography, Surprise Valley does look a lot more likely to be part of it than this Goose Lake. I'll reply about the other Goose Lake at Talk:Walker Lane. -- Avenue (talk) 14:50, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Walker Lane

message: Other sources claim that Goose Lake has not spilled into North Fork Pit River since 1881:
http://www.dfw.state.or.us/fish/ONFSR/final/08-redband-trout/rb-methods-goose-lake.pdf
http://www.nativetroutflyfishing.com/gooselakeredband.htm
Meanwhile, the assertions of the Pit River Watershed Alliance seem self-contradictory; that Goose Lake is both an enclosed basin, and the source of the Pit River.  It does say that Goose Lake flows into Pit River during rare peak water levels, but how rare is rare?  If the meat I eat were this rare, it would still be cold, because 128 years seems to fall within the range of, "not during the lifetime of anyone still alive". Downstrike (talk) 12:43, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The USGS originally defined Goose Lake as part of the Sacramento River drainage basin, via the Pit River, but in its most recent and meticulous watershed delineation work, the Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD), it defined Goose Lake as a closed basin. About to add something to that effect on the page. The WBD is only a year or two old, so info from it is not yet readily available online in a simple to access form. Given the slowness it takes federal agencies to update online info and take down older obsolete stats, it may take years! Downloading and viewing the WBD's Goose Lake data is not as easy as a simple click--it takes a bit of work, but no more, I reckon, than it would take to locate, acquire, and read any esoteric reference source that isn't online, like an old book. Note of course that the USGS is not the final authority on matters like this, but they are an authority, and a rather well respected one. Pfly (talk) 07:04, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Source of Pit River

message: At first glance, this would appear to be a desert basin lake, not a glacial lake.  Seems very odd. Can someone reference that?  Otherwise its been removed. Famartin (talk) 15:54, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Hopefully my edits cleared up the confusion. Glaciation contributed to the lake's formation thousands of years ago, but now it's in an arid basin. Jsayre64 (talk) 00:28, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glacial lake? 

message: What is a "48-site campground"? ICE77 (talk) 20:57, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  48-site campground 

message: https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/California-Oregon-border-town-Lakeview-hot-springs-16548720.php
-- John Broughton   (♫♫) 00:17, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drying up