Yosemite Nature Notes 36: Mystery Trees in Tenaya Lake

Tenaya Lake is a glacially carved lake in Yosemite National Park. One of the most important climate indicators we have of drought are the tree stumps in the middle of Tenaya Lake.
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Features Yosemite National Park and Tenaya Lake.

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What is the background music used in the latter half of the video?

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"Probably a few hundred feet across, and very long." Wow. And "really deep", too! You'd think she'd have some actual information, being that she's a ranger doing a video on the lake and all. I had to FF to 3:00 before they got around to talking about the trees. Then the guy tells us they're not "stumps" but the tops of trees, and the woman says there is a "smattering of various stumps". So at 4 minutes out of 7 we find out they are old trees "peaking out over the lake surface". No kidding. "The wood that's under the lake"? You mean under water? In the water? Under the surface of the lake? Who writes this stuff?
STOP saying "really unique"!!
I've been there. I've done that. It is spooky. I saw a presentation at Parson's Lodge about this in the late '90s, given by biologists who had studied the trees, and why they were there. Wasn't there something about a terminal moraine damming Tenaya Creek? And there's a parallel feature at the South shore of Lake Tahoe. All in all a disappointing video.