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Fishing is allowed in the park according to the external link provided below: http://www.oregonstateparks.org/park_1.php, which is same as the link provided on the main page of the article. -- Andy123 08:33, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure how best to incorporate this (perhaps a quote), but this link contains interesting history of a church near Goose Lake, and baptisms performed there: http://ncbible.org/nwh/OrLake.html Jyoshimi 21:39, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Wasn't there a large paddle boat of some sort that plied the lake? I think there may even be a left over hulk of it? ChildofMidnight ( talk) 05:46, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
The boat ChildofMidnight is thinking about is the one located in the field owned by rancher Bud Garret. The lake evaporated and left it high and dry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.160.99.212 ( talk) 17:52, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
This Goose Lake seems to be rather isolated from the region described as Walker Lane. Isn't the Goose Lake associated with Walker Lane more likely to be the one near Fallon, NV? If Walker Lane does indeed extend this far north, Surprise Valley seems to be a much more likely candidate, as it much more of a geological trough, and is associated with an eastern escarpment, while Goose Lake Valley is not. Downstrike ( talk) 11:43, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Other sources claim that Goose Lake has not spilled into North Fork Pit River since 1881:
http://www.dfw.state.or.us/fish/ONFSR/final/08-redband-trout/rb-methods-goose-lake.pdf
http://www.nativetroutflyfishing.com/gooselakeredband.htm
Meanwhile, the assertions of the Pit River Watershed Alliance seem self-contradictory; that Goose Lake is both an enclosed basin, and the source of the Pit River. It does say that Goose Lake flows into Pit River during rare peak water levels, but how rare is rare? If the meat I eat were this rare, it would still be cold, because 128 years seems to fall within the range of, "not during the lifetime of anyone still alive". Downstrike ( talk) 12:43, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
At the present time Dry Creek is the northernmost tributary of the North Fork of the Pit River. The last time Goose Lake emptied into the Pit was apparently 1881, but it was during high wind. The center of Goose Valley is prone to high winds tracking north and south during the day especially, as any local roofer is aware. Since Goose Lake has dried up at various times during the historic record, no one knows exactly when it emptied south routinely as part of the Sacramento watershed, which would make Thomas Creek the Pit River's northernmost tributary. Geologically, however, all of Goose Valley and its watershed are part of the Sacramento watershed, since the excess water would load into the Pit if the supply was great enough, unlike the various local basins of the Great Basin, such as the Chewaucan basin, which would eventuate into a large and deep inland sea. Euonyman ( talk) 21:42, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Perhaps someone can add information about the contribution (or lack thereof) of agricultural run-off to the lake. PhiloFaster ( talk) 16:24, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
So much water is contained in a number of large—Drews Reservoir, Dog Lake—and small impoundments—many designed as livestock tanks—scattered all over the Goose Valley watershed that the historic maxima of drainage will likely never be reached. A canal proceeding from Drews Reservoir is, or was, widely used for agriculture. Since Goose Valley soil is of a mixed type with large sections of hardpan that does not percolate, runoff to the Lake would be possible, but these tracts are not valuable for agriculture, and only those soils that will percolate sustain agriculture. Euonyman ( talk) 21:58, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
At first glance, this would appear to be a desert basin lake, not a glacial lake. Seems very odd. Can someone reference that? Otherwise its been removed. Famartin ( talk) 15:54, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
What is a "48-site campground"? ICE77 ( talk) 20:57, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
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