This quantity of fire is not unseen in the history of California: pre-1800 there used to be more fires, and during the European colonization California saw even more fires. The immediate cause of most (>80%) fires is attributable to humans. However, this is not true forlargefires. Lightni...
For if the AQI maps tell us anything, it is the absence of any preparedness for the interconnections of fire, smoke, and large dry stretches of a long story of low precipitation that have created abnormally dry conditions–indeed, drought–across the state. California Drought Monitor, Sept. 17...
Due to man caused climate change we had 5 years of drought, millions of trees died and then we had record high temperatures, high winds and lightning. No one takes the forest you moron! – @JunkScience @realDonaldTrump @GavinNewsom Is Gavin managing California's forests? Isn't the ...
Arid and semi-arid soils cover over 40% of the Earth’s terrestrial surface and support more than one-third of the world’s population17. Many of these systems experience prolonged periods of water deficit, after which, the first rainfall, “wet-up”, serves as a pivotal moment which resus...
La merveilleuse historie du général Johann August Sutter(1925; trans Henry Longan Stuart asSutter's Gold1926; new trans Nina Rootes, vtGold: Being the Marvelous History of General John Augustus Sutter1982). As with many tales set in California,Sutter's Goldchannels motifs out of theWestern, ...
Drought refugee arriving in California, by Dorothea Lange, 1936. As automobiles became more popular, travelers stopped at the El Garces as they made their way down the Old Trails Highway, later renamed Route 66 when the highway connected Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California. When the...
Merced County was established from parts of Mariposa County. Some of its territory was given to Fresno County the next year. It is in the fertile San Joaquin Valley. Local farms were severely impacted by the drought. Merced County. Government in 1856 ...
Giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum [Lindl.] J. Buchholz) preserve a detailed history of fire within their annual rings. We developed a 3000 year chronology of fire events in one of the largest extant groves of ancient giant sequoias, the Giant Fore
Due to the drought, our little pond in the front yard is dry. I keep water in the fountain at the upper right to provide water for the lizards and birds. The lavender plant is coming into nice bloom now. I dried some blossoms once to make lavender sugar, but decided that I didn’t...
As long as mandatory emergen- cy water-use restrictions remain in place and experts continue to claim this is the worst drought in history, some communities have to exist with- out running water and media cover- age will remain intense. Over the last few months we've seen multiple at- ...