When people describe the desert, words like hot, dry, desolate, bleak, bare, brown, inhospitable, and intimidating are often mentioned. Those descriptions change dramatically when water is added to the mix! Every ten years or so, Mother Nature sprinkles the desert with extra rain—enough rain to turn a hot, suffocating wind into a cool breeze; enough rain to turn a brown, dry...
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Unofficial elevation check 5097.035ft. Slowly creeping up. Creek between 400 - 460cfs. Hoping to see another 6” before it’s over but that might be wishful thinking better than it has been so we’ll take it. ...
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Placing a dollar value on nature is no easy task. The cultural benefits of natural ecosystems – such as their aesthetic or spiritual importance – tend to defy the label of a monetary value. However, nature also provides very real, very economically valuable natural benefits, known as ecosystem services, to human populations around the globe. These include supplying food, water,...
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Definitely Spring has arrived at the Lake and by Spring I mean warmer temps and lots of wildlife. We’ve had the Eagle fly right smack over us twice while we’ve been up at the Lake – truly quite awesome! There’s marmots and chipmunks and frogs, yup frogs! As I mentioned warmer temps and with the warmer temps, the ice is melting...
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After absorbing a full closure of our ocean salmon fishery in 2017, it appears the salmon stocks are getting stronger by the year. And with numbers trending up, the North Coast was given a lengthy season in 2019. After being behind closed doors for a week, the PFMC emerged on Tuesday and set the seasons for the West Coast for...
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A huge thank you to CalTrans for getting the second lane plowed up to Camp Sabrina! And another huge thank you to the Inyo County Road Crew for getting the road plowed the rest of the way up and both the lower and upper parking lots – sure do appreciate it – more than you will ever know!!! The road...
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