The Gold Rush also had a devastating effect on California’sNative population. As land became more scarce, the white American men who had settled there became fiercely territorial, often resorting to violence or forced labor by sending migrant or Native American workers down into the treacherous mi...
sparsely populated with Native Americans. While the 1849 Gold Rush had terrible consequences for the indigenous people, a fact that can’t be overstated,
of marriage, family, work, wealth, and leisure; led to so many varied consequences; and left such vivid memories among its participants.\nThrough extensive research in diaries, letters, and other archival sources, Rohrbough uncovers the personal dilemmas and confusion that the Gold Rush brought....
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As California enters its fifth year of drought the consequences of an ever depleting natural resource, water, continues to negatively impact landscape plants, agricultural production, wildlife, and the economy. The lack of water in California has the potential to have a devastating effect on an ...
California became the last state in the West to regulate groundwater when Gov. Jerry Brown last year signed legislation ending a Gold Rush-era policy that generally let property owners take as much as they wanted. But local agencies have until 2040 to put groundwater management plans into effec...
Las Californias to the Gold RushCalifornia was once a part of Las Californias, a Spanish territory that comprised modern day California, Baja California, and Baja California Sur. Spain split up Las Californias and created a new province that comprised modern day California, Utah, Nevada, and ...
The current drought in California has being going on for 3 years now, and continues to worsen. A drought is an extended period of time without rain, and has resulted in California being deficient in water. This has severe consequences for all residents, not just those within the agriculture ...
Local woman tried to stop teen bullies from beating a kid, but when she and her husband intervened, the kids attacked her instead; APD seeks video evidence-Lost Coast Outpostwant to place any bets on whether or not there will be consequences for the teenagers actions?
So again, Natural Consequences is partly designed to reflect on my own complicity in the systems that I decry. It is to call the question on myself because it’s easier to do than to say to somebody else, “Oh man, you know, you don’t see yourself. You’re implicated in all of ...