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A wet weather pattern during the winter and early spring left many communities with an abundance of precipitation. Drought map for the Lower 48. (FOX Weather) According to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor, 99% of California, Nevada, Utah, and Alaska are not in drought status. While the ye...
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Surface reservoir levels are still in good shape, fortunately. Most reservoirs are exceeding their long-term average October levels, meaning that if 2025 becomes a drought water year, there will be sizable reservoir storage to help buffer major users for a first drought year. Groundwater recovery ...
L. et al. Drought, tree mortality, and wildfire in forests adapted to frequent fire. BioScience 68, 77–88 (2018). Article Google Scholar Westerling, A. L. Increasing western US forest wildfire activity: sensitivity to changes in the timing of spring. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B Biol. ...
California has placed the Tule groundwater subbasin on probationary status, a step that brings additional state oversight, new fees and reporting requirements.
Consider the state’s water system. Once considered an engineering marvel, today California faces chronic water shortages. Political resistance to new reservoir construction and desalination plants has left the state increasingly vulnerable to drought, while tone deaf environmental requirements and miscalcula...
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To study this response, we collected seeds from three populations ofCollinsia multicolor(San Franciscocollinsia, Plantaginaceae) found in central California both before and after the state's historic 2012-2016 drought. We conducted a greenhouse study to examine contemporary evolution between the ...
California has already set a record with more than 3 million acres burned so far this year. The small community where Harris spoke is within the Sierra National Forest, where a fast-moving wildfire was sparked over Labor Day weekend. State fire and forest officials described the status of the...