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Not a great shot, but taken for documentation purposes. Growing at these lower slopes of the Sierras were clusters of what I believe to be Aspen trees -- on the left side of this picture.
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Btw, the ridge in the background is a big lateral moraine, of Tioga age judging by the abundance of white boulders on its surface. (Boulders at the surface break up geologically quickly due to weathering, so the older Tahoe moraines do not have the scattered boulders at their surface.) Anyway, a moraine is a ridge of loose debris pushed out of the way by a glacier, so it's pretty permeable. Hence, the problem will be that there's little barrier to the rain and snowmelt sinking very deep, so there will not usually be a lot of groundwater accessible high on the moraine--one reason it's so barren. Here along the base of the moraine the water table will be much more shallow, simply because there's nowhere left to sink to, and that will help its availability for large plants like trees You can think of the water table as filling the valley here. There will, of course, still be a slow rate of flow of the subsurface water in the valley downstream over time. As a general rule you get surface water where the water table intersects the ground surface.
Hope this thumbnail sketch of Hydrology 101 helps! ;)
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to slgwv clubslgwv club has replied to Don Barrett (aka DBs… clubOne of the things that happens with reservoirs, tho, is that they boost the local water table from water soaking in! This is a loss mechanism that wasn't always accounted for in the old days. I remember reading somewhere that the Navajos along the canyon that Lake Powell filled got a windfall--wells were much more productive in a few years!
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