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Importing water to save the Salton Sea is long overdue. What are we waiting for?
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFor various reasons, the Salton Sea is drying: rural-urban water transfers and sales, drought and...
I revisited my Valley Voice about the Salton Sea from 20 years ago: not much has changed
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTwenty years ago, The Desert Sun published a Valley Voice I wrote about the Salton Sea. Sadly,...
If California comes for Midwest water, we have plenty of dynamite in Minnesota
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIf California comes for Midwest water, we have plenty of dynamite in Minnesota I live in Red Wing,...
Fear of the 'Big Melt' turns to big relief along California's Eastern Sierra
LA Times via Yahoo News· 10 months agoHikers follow a trail along Rainbow Falls in Devils Postpile National Monument near Mammoth...
L.A. wins water battle with Mono County amid worsening drought
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe suns sets on the Glass Mountains and the Owens River overlooking Eastern Sierra Nevada wetlands...
Two California lakes are making comebacks with different results
NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSome of California’s biggest lakes are making dramatic comebacks as the state’s “big melt” of...
Breaking Down the Wave Pool Wars
The Inertia via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThese days, surf parks are like buses: miss one, and another one will come along soon enough. Last week it was Sydney’s turn. Owen Wright was the...
'Properties of Thirst': A stroke could not stop Marianne Wiggins writing a great American novel
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAbout three-quarters of the way through “Properties of Thirst” (Simon & Schuster, 544 pp., ★★★★ out...
Sarah Lim: Looking back, the sights of Merced’s Main Street in 1929
Merced Sun-Star via AOL· 2 years agoIt was an autumn morning in 1929. At 9:30 a.m., Merced’s Main Street was already lined with parked...
White oak from Ozarks travels 1,000 miles to National Mall for Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Springfield News-Leader via Yahoo News· 11 months agoWhite oak logs grown in the Ozarks traveled nearly 1,000 miles in the back of a U-Haul to Washington...