Abstract
and Mono Craters are exceptions. They constitute high plateau, alpine country marked by hot springs, waterfalls, glacial moraines, volcanic cones, patches of rare red snow, floating pumice blocks, and glass-like lava flows. Irrigated by western rains and glacial waters these areas, shadowed by the mountains, once held delicate stands of slow-growing lodgepole pine, red fir, and Jeffrey pine-some 400 years old--while the sunny meadows regularly bloomed with purple lupin, Indian paintbrush, blue iris, shooting stars, and an occasional snow plant.' One of these oases was located along Deadman Creek in the Inyo National Forest. In the 1950s the U.S. Forest Service began logging the Deadman area, sparking a
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