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Comments from Heather
10/4- Hi Mary- What have you worked on to improve the Eagle Lake page in the last week? Can you provide a log with dates and how long you worked on it? You should also list several references (from BC Gale Virtual Reference Library and from Biography in Context) that you can use to improve the page, okay?

10/16- Great! You're on the right track. Please copy and paste the section of the Eagle Lake Wikipedia page you'll be updating into your Sandbox below. This gives you a chance to make changes before they're live? I'll check what you have and then you can move it to the main page. Please copy and paste and update article in Sandbox by 10/21. :)

Work Log
DATE-9/30/18 I am doing my Wikipedia article about Eagle Lake in Lassen County. The reason the lake is called Eagle Lake is because, of the Bald Eagles and Osprey that live on and near the lake. Eagle Lake is also known for its rainbow trout fish. The lake is close to Pine Creek which is where the Rainbow trout go to spawn. Date: 10/14/18   Read article about BLM closing the public lands due to Whaleback fire in Susanville, They temporarily closed the campgrounds to the public while this fire was going. It is burning dry timber and brush and is remaining on the south shore of the lake. Date: 10/21/18 read the articel about the fish in Eagle Lake and how the survive the alkaline water. These trout were once so abundant that there was a commercial fishery for them in the late 19th century. At the same time, extensive logging and heavy livestock grazing caused Pine Creek to change from a permanent to an intermittent stream in its lower reaches. Date: 10/28/18 found a interesting paragraph about the lake being constructed and exporting the lake water to the Honey Lake Valley via willow creek, a tributary of the Susan River.

Since these Modoc Lakes are high in alkalinity, the trout have evolved to be the only known trout subspecies capable of surviving in the alkaline waters of Eagle Lake. Eagle Lake Rainbow descendants, however, are planted with high success in many other lakes in California. In 1923 the Leon Bly Tunnel was constructed to export lake water to the Honey Lake Valley via Willow Creek,[9] a tributary of the Susan River. The 2 mi (3.2 km) long tunnel was cut through old lava flows but falling lake levels rendered it useless and a landslide partially blocked the tunnel entrance. However, a 1990 study found that lake water still flows through the tunnel although tunnel fish are from the Willow Creek assemblage.[10]

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