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Local heron rookery, one at most nests, and a second at a couple.

That is serious shite right there. Not funny

The population growth in that area has impacted most of the Cascades to the west as well. My former go to hiking areas are now too depressing for me to visit because they are over run with people that don’t think it’s so bad because it’s better than where the came from… Fortunately I read maps...

A pair of Pileated, slightly better than my perched eagle pic.

I saw an osprey yesterday. They usually show up mid to late March around here.

https://www.ladwp.com/sites/default/files/documents/OwensLakeTrailsBrochureWider_Rolling2019V2.pdf The plaza is a surreal visit. The road on the lakebed is highly corrosive, and is proven problematic to electrical systems in vehicles. Drive on the weekends when they aren’t spraying the roads...

My father was an artist. He believed that he had found the perfect place to live.

Much of the planted salt grass is irrigated. All of the water LADWP uses on the lake bed is aqueduct water, they are not allowed to pump out the groundwater under he lake. The water under the lake is salty and alkaline as RR noted. The only areas I have seen an increase in vegetation is below...

As someone with a wood fence around my property I can attest to how fast wood can rot in the ground out there. Truth be told good Doug fir will outlast any “white wood” (spruce/pine/true fir) that has been pressure treated. The other big factor out there is the wind. They will close 395...

@Matt B #1 is the top grade Doug fir. 20’ 6x6 with 12’ of the post in the ground, and 8’ above. I don’t know if it is supposed to break up the wind somehow, or to create something like an eddy like the furrows do. Different areas of the lake bed use different dust mitigation methods. There is...

There were 2 paddle wheel stream ships , the Bessy Brady and ?. They ran silver ore from Keeler across the lake to Cartago. The silver came from Cerro Gordo. A friend worked on the lake bed for LA DWP when they had to mitigate the dust from the dry lake bed. The path of the paddle wheels could...

A neighbor just sent this. https://smartmailerview.bisglobal.net/SendMail/1143/2026%5C2%5C23/944061/CampaignInitiativeEmail_78722010.html?sm_guid=OTQ0MDYxfDc4NzIyMDEwfC0xfGtzcGFsbGV5QGdtYWlsLmNvbXw4NTIyODU3fHwwfDB8MzAxODIwMTA4fDExNDN8MHwwfHw5NDYwMDJ8MA2 Crystal Geyser wants to drill another...

My father lived there 1980’s until his death around 2000. My sister and I have kept his place. I used to stay 3 weeks in the fall in 3 in the spring. I try to get at least 3 weeks down a year now. I am a part time local, I have more people looking out for me down there than I do at home. I still...

Nothing new, formerly called an invasive species permit and was required for all vessels 10’ and over.

A couple from the area between Red Rocks and Jawbone Canyon, just off the southern end of the Owens Valley. We have become soft… Some more from the area around town The old bank vault In my youth there was also the oven from the bakery. I used to find intact sections of the old...

I will dig up some more. Locals hunted the west slope of the Inyos, New York Butte. Always love the trip to the Burgess mine and Cerro Gordo

I was down at the end of December into early January as well. Went into Panamint Valley with my exploring friend, this was at the Minnietta mine. Some of the most impressive dry stack masonry I’ve seen Rumored to be a corral from the late 1600’s Same canyon as the above two pictures but...