Fording a river, Grouse mountain, British Columbia,  Summer 2021 If you’ve ever been in the Pacific Northwest, you've seen the local “un...

Photo Credit: UNxArtPartner Create COP25 Haenyeo 2019 Emerald sequins bathed in refracting light. Lavender velvet crushed beneath loose limb...

In 2012, California passed AB 685 , becoming the first state to recognize the human right to water. Despite this, as of 2024, more than  900...

The blog’s most recent post  discussed the Rural Health Transformation Program . Passed as part of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” this “r...

Kellen Browning reports for the New York Times under the headline, " They Wanted a Conservative State. They Might Get a Democratic Repr...

The United States Army Corps of Engineers is a government agency which falls under the purview the President of the United States in his ca...

Access to water is becoming more of a challenge in California, especially for rural communities in the Central Valley. Many rural families a...

The Indian Wells Valley sprawls across Inyo, Kern, and San Bernardino county lines in the northwestern Mojave Desert. Beneath it lies the I...

Katy Stech Ferek reports in today's Wall Street Journal under the headline, " Democrat Woos Dairy Farmers to Keep Crucial Senate Se...

Don't miss Katie Licari's excellent, in-depth reporting here and here.  She is writing about the long-term consequences of the Los A...

Solano County, California (April, 2024) (c) Lisa R. Pruitt 2024 The Associated Press reported last week that California Forever, the group ...