“For decades, residents of Bakersfield have lived with a river that’s little more than a channel of dust.
The Kern, which pours from the snowy peaks of the southern Sierra, descends upon California’s ninth-largest city and, in all but the wettest of years, runs dry. A sandy, weed-strewn corridor is left winding unremarkably through the downtown, beside roads, beneath bridges and behind businesses.
A group of residents is trying to change that.” [Read More]