California Drought 2015
Reminders of this historical drought are prominent throughout California’s lakes and rivers. The drought has lasted four years and shows no signs of receding with a stronger than ever El-Nino event predicted.
Eagle Lake in the Lassen County in north-eastern California is California’s second largest natural lake. The lake is home to the Eagle Lake Trout. Thankfully these alkaline resistant trout were rescued for a hatchery when the lake first became challenged in the nineteen-fifties. Logging and irrigation reduced inflow quantities to dangerous levels then, and now the lake is almost completely dry.
- Eagle Lake in northern California is normally 37 square miles (97 sq km) of water, now grass, dirt, and mud.
- Mirror Lake normally reflects the mountains, but remains dry due to the severe drought.
- Precautionary burn about a half mile from Yosemite Village thickens the still valley air with white smoke.
- Deliberate burn-offs in Yosemite Valley ultimately reduces the risk of hotter wildfires.
- Yosemite Falls dry.
Categories: Happenings, observations, and views
Posted: October 30, 2015 17:21
Alan
Posted: October 30, 2015 17:12
Carolyn