Conservation Projects
Big Pine Basin, Inyo County

This plan represents a substantial CDFW effort to optimize the quality of wilderness angling in the Big Pine Basin, Inyo County, while maintaining natural biodiversity using a systematic and basin-wide resource assessment and planning approach. Implementation of the plan will result in refined fisheries management that is based on new information and our current biological understanding of high elevation trout and frog populations, the development of a quality golden trout fishery, the development of new methods to improve self-sustaining trout fisheries, and the restoration and expansion of a mountain yellow-legged frog population.

This report is presented in PDF format. It has been divided into many different files because some figures are over 3 MB in size, and downloading these files may take more than an hour using a dial-up modem.

• Report Text
• List of Figures
  • Figure 1. Eastern Sierra managed high country fisheries management units. (2.7MB)
  • Figure 2. Big Pine wilderness fisheries management area, 1998 conditions. (.4 MB)
  • Figure 3. Fork length as a function of age for trout in the Big Pine Basin lakes. (1.2 MB)
  • Figure 4. Condition factor at length for Black Lake rainbow trout, August, 1996. (.01 MB)
  • Figure 5. Condition factor at length for Sixth Lake brook trout, August, 1996. (.01 MB)
  • Figure 6. Angler use in the Big Pine Basin from volunteer angler surveys collected, 1995-98. (.01 MB)
  • Figure 7. Distribution of brook trout spawning redds and moutain yellow-legged frogs a Big Pine Lakes 6, 7,8. (3.7 MB)
  • Figure 8. Mountain yellow-legged frog population in Sam Mack Meadow. (2.2 MB)
  • Figure 9. Mountain yellow-legged frog population in the meadow between Fourth and Summit Lakes. (2.2 MB)
  • Figure 10. Tree frog distribution in the NF Big Pine Basin. (3.3 MB)
  • Figure 11. Tree frog distribution in the SF Big Pine Basin. (3.0 MB)
  • Figure 12. NF Big Pine Basin management direction. (.7 MB)
• Appendix I
  Maps and Survey Data Summaries for Big Pine Creek Basin Lakes
  • First Lake (1.4 MB)
  • Second Lake (3.4 MB)
  • Third Lake (3.0 MB)
  • Fourth Lake (1.8 MB)
  • Fifth Lake (2.3 MB)
  • Sixth Lake (1.9 MB)
  • Seventh Lake (1.2 MB)
  • Eighth Lake (.3 MB)
  • Black Lake (1.8 MB)
  • Summit Lake (.8 MB)
  • Sam Mack Lake (1.7 MB)
  • Elinore Lake (1.3 MB)
  • Willow Lake (2.5 MB)
  • Brainard Lake (1.1 MB)
  • lower Thumb Lake (.4 MB)
  • upper Thumb Lake (.4 MB)
  • Finger Lake (2.2 MB)