This is the same park film that is shown at the park Visitor Centers. Enjoy learning about the different people, wildlife, and ecosystems of the Great Basin. Audio described at • Great Basin National P...
I live near Reno at the western edge of the Great Basin, and I really love to go eastward on highway 50 towards Great Basin National Park near the Utah border. The sights really get interesting and beautiful once you pass Sand Mountain east of Fallon. The only towns after Fallon are Austin, Eureka and Ely and all three are small and rustic, although Ely is larger and has more motels and businesses. If the night is clear, you can go just a short distance from the towns and see more stars than just about anywhere in the continental United States. Although some would say this area is desolate, it also has great beauty and abundance of plants and animals. I love living so close to all of this natural habitat.
Great Video! Thank you for sharing it. I live in Northern Nevada & am a part of the Western Shoshone and Northern Paiute Tribes. They want to mine for lithium on these relative grounds. We are doing everything we can to protect the endangered animals as well as get the Federal Government to see the beauty in Nevada is not up for sale.
I would be heartbroken if they start mining in these national park areas. That's one thing I admired about the native American tribes is they only took what they needed from nature and nothing more. I would be happy if the apple company would shut down and go out of business they don't need to put a new phone out every 18 months. That's driving part of the need for lithium.
As usual, they ALWAYS need to introduce the “climate change “ narrative. Meanwhile, ice ages have advanced and receded, the once great Lahontan lake has disappeared, and they mention the Great Basin was once a portion of the great salt lake, yet all of the other known changes that have occurred are somehow dismissed as irrelevant.
It immediately reminded me of the Gandy hot springs, there being a cave just behind this hanging curtain of fernlike plants. The spring comes out of the hill further up, and some enterprising folk dammed it to make a hot tub; then the overflow comes down to this larger area. The cave is about 40 ft deep, and you have to swim underwater for 10 ft before coming up, to access the back portion.
Beautiful video, so well done. We’ll be going next June. I want to visit the Caves but I’m kind of claustrophobic. Anyone know if it’s super tight in there? 😁
The Lehman Caves are brilliant, loaded with draperies & fab features. The tightest section is probably the entrance tunnel. Once you’re in, it’s fairly spacious. Enjoy….
