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Dos Rios State Park is located at the confluence of the Tuolumne River and the San Joaquin River. A visit is like stepping into a time machine as its creators reimagine what a state park can be.
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A Kings County judge granted a temporary restraining order against the state's unprecedented mandate. Growers there will not have to meter their groundwater use for now.
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Since mid-June, residents in the small, upscale Tulare County town have been turning on taps in their homes only to find no running water.
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Wildfires sparked by lightning have kept hundreds of firefighters busy in Fresno County and the high Sierra Nevada region this week.
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If local groundwater agencies can’t agree on a plan to rein in pumping voluntarily, the state could impose stricter measures.
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Two San Joaquin Valley water districts voted to break away from the Eastern Tule Groundwater Sustainability Agency this month, clearing a path for them to form their own agencies and groundwater plans in the next six months.
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Temperatures will taper down into the 90s this weekend. That’s still toasty, but it’s a slight respite from the first heat wave of the year ahead of summer. Another heat wave will arrive Tuesday.
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Researchers climbed the world’s largest tree to inspect for bark beetles and descended the giant sequoia with good news this week.
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President Biden dramatically expanded two national monuments in California. But there are growing concerns that federal land managers are struggling to manage existing monuments designated since 2016.
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A weekend spring storm that drenched the San Francisco Bay area and closed Northern California mountain highways also set a single-day snowfall record for the season on Sunday in the Sierra Nevada.
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The move follows calls from tribal nations, Indigenous community leaders and others for the permanent protection of nearly 120,000 acres of important cultural and environmental land.
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In heat-stricken Fresno, trees can be one of the best antidotes to the ‘urban heat island effect,’ the name scientists use to describe the higher temperatures often seen in cities as a result of sunlight reflection on pavement and other impermeable surfaces.