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Oak fire, California’s largest this year, explodes in size; thousands flee, towns threatened

LOS ANGELES — Firefighters were struggling to battle California’s largest fire of the season so far, a fast-moving inferno tearing through the Sierra Nevada foothills west of Yosemite National Park that has burned at least 10 structures, forced several thousand people to flee their homes and is threatening multiple mountain…

Los Angeles Times

Explosive fire near Yosemite is California’s largest this year, forcing thousands to flee

LOS ANGELES —Firefighters were struggling to battle California’s largest fire of the season so far, a fast-moving inferno tearing through the Sierra Nevada foothills north of Yosemite that has burned at least 10 structures, forced several thousand people to flee their homes and is threatening multiple mountain communities.

Los Angeles Times

California forests are vanishing as wildfires burn larger and more intensely

GREENVILLE, Calif. — A burn scar in Northern California offers an unsettling glimpse into what forests across the Sierra Nevada could become. Bare tree carcasses are strewn across the dun-colored hills. Rock outcroppings jut out like bones.

Los Angeles Times

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Yosemite wildfire continues to grow as it pushes east into Sierra national forest

Giant sequoias still safe as firefighters face challenges from the warm and dry conditions fueling the blaze

The Guardian - US

Yosemite fire: Why giant sequoia trees are surviving now when others died in recent fires

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Last year and the year before, in an unprecedented environmental disaster, wildfires in California’s Sequoia National Park and nearby national forests roared through treasured sequoia groves in the Southern Sierra Nevada, generating flames hundreds of feet high and killing nearly 20% of all the ancient…

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A California gold mine's toxic legacy: Inside the fight over reopening a treasure trove

GRASS VALLEY, Calif. — Five years ago, Canadian mining executive Ben Mossman came to this little Gold Rush town in the Sierra Nevada foothills, planning to strike it rich.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Too many new straws in California’s groundwater milkshake

It wasn’t that long ago that increasingly arid California seemed as watery as a wet sponge. At the time the state became part of the U.S., Tulare Lake was the largest body of freshwater west of the Great Lakes, and winter flooding made it even larger. In particularly wet years,…

Los Angeles Times

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No sea serpents, mobsters but Tahoe trash divers strike gold

Scuba divers at Lake Tahoe are sorting through their haul after an unprecedented, yearlong effort to remove litter from the alpine lake's entire 72 miles of shoreline atop the Sierra Nevada

The Independent UK

Ski resorts cheer as spring storm dumps snow in California

A spring storm brought several feet of snow to the Sierra Nevada and rain to parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, with more stormy weather expected this week

The Independent UK

California drought: Sierra snowpack falls to one of lowest levels in 70 years

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Stressed by high temperatures and a record run of dry weather over the last three months, the Sierra Nevada snowpack, the source of 30% of the state’s water supply, has hit one of its lowest levels for the end of winter in generations.

Tribune News Service

California drought: Sierra Nevada snowpack falls below average after dry January

Like the 49ers fourth-quarter lead in Sunday’s NFC Championship game, California’s once-impressive Sierra Nevada snowpack is steadily shrinking.

Tribune News Service

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