Showing posts with label almond orchards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label almond orchards. Show all posts
Saturday, March 2, 2019

The Other Snowstorm in California Right Now, and a Water Problem of a Different Kind

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The Sierra Nevada and Cascades are buried under record amounts of snow right now, but that's not the only "snow" falling in ...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Damn Fool California Farmers Bringing on a New Dust Bowl

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The video is very short, but in eight seconds it shows the stupidity of bad agricultural practices in Central California, practices that ha...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Driving Through the Most Dangerous Plate Boundary in the World: The Sea Floor that Became the Greatest Agricultural Region on Earth

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Welcome to one of the strangest places on the planet! It's the size of West Virginia, but flatter than the Mississippi River Valley...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

California's Precious Disappearing Prairies: A trip to the Willms Road Pond

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One of California's precious landscapes is being lost, again. The state once had a vast prairie extending for 400 miles from Reddin...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

A Different Kind of "Snow" in California, and a Coming World of Hurt

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 There is a different kind of snow falling in California right now. It might look vaguely like that cold stuff that has been falling back...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Oh, Nuts. What a Great Reason to Destroy the Remaining 5% of the Original California Prairie

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Vernal swales on the summit area of Table Mountain. These have some similarity to vernal pools on the valley floor but are also different...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

The Water Pirates: A Can a Day is All We Ask (plus 107 million gallons)

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New orchard on the California prairie It's a sad and familiar story for California: there is a valuable resource in the ground, free...