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Above the Falls · a book in progress

5–6 September 2026

A wide view of a river running over a cobble bar between willows, a burned pine ridge above it, high cloud.
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A weathered steel sign with two cut-steel trout: Wildlife Conservation Board, Department of Fish and Wildlife, Heenan Lake Wildlife Area, and below it the permitted uses and the fishing season.
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A trailhead board headed Wilderness Information, holding a Carson-Iceberg Wilderness map and its regulations, the paper weathered away across the lower half.
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A wide view from a dirt road along a ridge, dead pines in dry grass, a long valley below and range behind range to the horizon.
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Collapsed machinery on a broken rock slope: a cast iron flywheel, a heavy worm shaft, sheets of corrugated iron and burned timber lying among sagebrush.
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A cemetery plat board under glass: rows of numbered rectangles in lettered sections, with paths between them, and the shadow of the photographer across it.
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A roadside sign with a painted trout: Lahontan National Fish Hatchery Complex, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, 710 US Highway 395 North.
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Inside a chain-link fence in a pine wood: rough granite blocks and slabs lying and leaning on bare ground under pine needles.
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A soft-cover book lying on a table: From the Basque Country to the Sheep Camps of the Carson Valley, The Personal Stories of Basque Immigrants, with the Zazpiak-Bat arms, compiled by the Museum Committee, Mendiko Euskaldun Cluba, Gardnerville, Nevada.
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