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Efforts to reduce dust from dry Owens Lake bed are helping, report finds
Dust rising from the dry bottom of Owens Lake is a longstanding problem. Now, scientists have found that lands surrounding ...
SoCal is broiling, but lower temperatures are on the way — along with dangerous winds
A heat advisory is in effect through Wednesday for portions of SoCal. Highs in the forecast include 118 degrees in Palm ...
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A century after Owens Valley aqueduct protest, event marks tense time in L.A. water history
“It's worthy of recognition in the history of Owens Valley, to show how this community stood up to this huge metropolis with lots of power and money.” Stringfellow lives in Joshua Tree and her ...
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Cost of Owens Valley storm damage continues to mount for Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
The cost of repairing damage to Los Angeles DWP infrastructure in the Owens Valley has been steadily mounting since early last year. Here, a worker studies repairs made in 2023 to a drain that ...
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Migrating Shorebirds Ally with Clean Air Activists in the Owens Valley
“The Owens Valley is nothing but a resource colony,” Kathy Jefferson Bancroft, tribal historic preservation officer for the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Reservation, told me. Her office in Lone ...
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In California, Tribal Members Are Reclaiming the ‘Land of the Flowing Water’
Several tribes in Owens Valley in the eastern Sierra Nevada see hope in small property transfers that have become part of a growing “Land Back” movement. Much of the land in Owens Valley was ...
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Owens Lake Scientific Advisory Panel: Off-Lake Sources of Airborne Dust in Owens Valley, California
and Medicine will evaluate off-lake sources of airborne dust in Owens Valley, California. Off-lake dust sources are those that are located at elevations above the 3,600 ft regulatory shoreline of ...