Pear Lake

A high-altitude alpine lake surrounded by steep, grey rocky mountains. Several waterfalls flow down the smooth rock faces into the lake, and sparse pine trees grow along the rocky shore under an overcast grey sky.

Label: Pearl Lake
Artist: Lillie Bradshaw
Description: Pear Lake, located in Sequoia Kings Canyon national park, sits at 9,550 ft elevation, far above the giant sequoias, which exist between 4,000 and 8,000 ft. Its close proximity to the Central Valley in California provides a unique opportunity to study the wide reaching impacts of human agriculture and the use of copper as a fungicide as it is atmospherically deposited in the remote high elevation lake ecosystems of central California.
Type: Camera
Artist Affiliation: Graduate Student
Department: Department of Biological Science
Area of Research: Applied Ecology
Research Group Site: Lester Lab
Date: 2022