The 1965 study of Sierra lakes was supported in part by the U.S. Public Health Service
Research Grant No. UI00484 from the National Center for Urban and Industrial Health;
the 1980 part of the study by Southern California Edison Company. The authors thank
the following for assistance in sampling Sierra lakes; Mel Wehmueller and Bob Cloud,
Southern California Edison helicopter pilots; Don Southward, SCE helicopter maintenance;
Tom Keeney, SCE research and development; and John E. Warnecke, Staff Research Associate,
Department of Soils and Environmental Science, University of California, Riverside.