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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Finding Gold in the Mother Lode (but not that kind): A bit of color in drought-stricken California

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Our search for gold in the Mother Lode of the Sierra Nevada foothills was successful, but we weren't looking for that kind of gold. Y...
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Thursday, May 5, 2011

The Great Drying Has Begun: Springtime in the Sierra Nevada

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It may seem paradoxical to speak of drought in California right now. The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada is running nearly 200% of normal, an...
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Monday, October 25, 2010

Liken' Lichens a Lot Lately...Fall Report from the Sierra Foothills

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It was a beautiful sparkling clear day following yesterday's storm that dumped 3-4 inches of rain on many parts of Central and Northern...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

The Other California: The Day of the Fiddlenecks (a trip in the Mother Lode)

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The Other California is my continuing exploration of the places in our state that don't tend to show up on the postcards, and are misse...
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Garry Hayes
I am a teacher of geology at Modesto Junior College and former president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Far Western Section. I have led field trips all over the western United States, and a few excursions overseas, but my homebase is the Sierra Nevada, the Great Valley, and the Coast Ranges of California.
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