Agai Pah - Trout Lake

It was once part of the Pleistocene era Lake Lahontan which covered most of the Great Basin. 

It is only Walker lake and Pyramid Lake who remain. They are the only two who remember.

The Agai Dicutta, who are now known as the Walker River Paiute Tribe, lived with the lake for over 11,000 years. For context, that is 3,000 years before Lake Lahontan was completely gone.

The Agai Dicutta called the lake Agai Pah, Trout Lake. Colonists renamed it Walker Lake after a “mountain man”.

The lake once had three main fish. Lahontan Cutthroat Trout, Tui Chub and Tahoe sucker. The Lahontan cutthroat trout were yearly restocked from 1980 to 2000. 

In 2010 the last trout died off. There are no more fish in Walker Lake.  

Agai Pah is a terminal lake. Water flows in, but does not flow out. It gathers its water from snow melt and the Walker River.  

Water rights on the Walker River are over allocated up to 120 percent. Many years the river no longer reaches the lake. 

There is a small population of Tui chub living in a reservoir in the Wassuk Mountains above The Lake. They were removed before the rising salinity of the lake completely killed them off. They are in waiting, like so many species, a small collection of genetics,  for us to figure out how to un-fuck something we have throughly fucked. 

The shore line has lost 200 feet. 
The lake has lost 90 percent of its volume.