Anaho Island: volcanic rocks, Lahontan tufa and waterbirds
Anaho Island

Anaho Island and white pelicans seen from Blockhouse Beach
Known today as Anaho Island National Wildlife Refuge, the presevation of Anaho Island as a bird breeding colony started in 1913, when President Woodrow Wilson established the “Anaho Island Reservation.” The topography of the volcanically formed island, located south from the name-giving Pyramid of Pyramid Lake, is rich in tufa formations, which also can be found elsewhere around the lake; for example, at the Popcorn Rock site and the tufa pinnacles at the lake's northern tip. Anaho Island itself is closed to the public. The treeless island is free of mammalian predators and therefore offers undisturbed breeding ground for native and migratory nesting birds. American white pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos)—also called pouched fishermen— share the island with other breeding birds such as cormorants, herons, egrets, gulls and terns.
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Around Pyramid Lake
▶ Pyramid Lake
▶ Popcorn Rock at Pyramid Lake
▶ Hiking between tufa pinnacles and mushroom castles
▶ Pyramid Lake: pouched fishermen
▶ Anaho Island National Wildlife Refuge