BY VIC BEDOIAN Tulare Lake has been many things to many people over a very long time. It’s not a lake anymore except when in certain wet years it becomes the ghost of a lake, bringing back memories [...] Continue Reading
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Fighting Oligarchy Tour Inspires Bakersfield
The coast-to-coast “Fighting Oligarchy Tour,” featuring Senator Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.), hit the Central Valley town of Bakersfield, where oil and agriculture [...] Continue Reading
Conservando las Tierras y Aguas del Corazón de California
En la vasta extensión de la región sur del Valle de San Joaquín se extiende un mosaico de paisajes que van desde la Sierra Nevada, a través de las laberínticas laderas, hasta las granjas y praderas de [...] Continue Reading
Conserving the Lands and Waters of California’s Heartland
Within the vast expanse of the southern San Joaquin Valley region live a mosaic of landscapes stretching from the tree-clad Sierra through the rambling foothills and across the farms and prairies of [...] Continue Reading
Huron, Heart of the Valley
Heart of the Valley. That is Huron’s motto. The words are even emblazoned on the new bridge on State Route 269 as it crosses Los Gatos Creek just before entering town. In a very real sense, it is [...] Continue Reading
Managing Valley Aquifers
California recently celebrated 10 years since the enacting of the State Groundwater Management Act, the landmark legislation known by the acronym SGMA. The law mandated that overdrafted groundwater [...] Continue Reading
El Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre Merced es un Tesoro del Valle
POR VIC BEDOIAN Como un conserje de un gran hotel o el director de una orquesta filarmónica, Gabriel Sandoval afina el entorno ambiental del Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre Merced (RNV). Es un [...] Continue Reading
Merced National Wildlife Refuge Is a Valley Treasure
Like a concierge at a grand hotel or the conductor of a philharmonic orchestra, Gabriel Sandoval fine-tunes the environmental surroundings of the Merced National Wildlife Refuge (NWR). It is a complex [...] Continue Reading
Reacting to the Threat of Mass Deportations
Results of the 2024 election and Donald Trump’s menacing immigration policies sparked a coalition of immigrant rights and social justice groups to call a press conference at the federal building in [...] Continue Reading
Water Equity Is Vital to the Future of Valley Communities
Lindsay is a citrus- and olive-growing town in Tulare County. The lush orchards that embrace the surrounding landscape thrive on water from California’s canal system and the San Joaquin Valley’s [...] Continue Reading
La Justicia del Agua es Vital Para el Futuro de las Comunidades del Valle
Lindsay es una ciudad productora de cítricos y olivos en el condado de Tulare. Los exuberantes huertos que abrazan el paisaje circundante prosperan gracias al agua del sistema de canales de California [...] Continue Reading
Creek Fire Survival
Standing next to Woodland Road just off Highway 168, Jem Bluestein looks downslope into the Jose Basin. “It just came up here, up the canyon. It just came up here like a thousand freight trains, this [...] Continue Reading