Up Against the Wall: Steelhead and the Carmel Lagoon Ecosystem Protective...
The Carmel River Lagoon in 1947 (Laidlaw Williams photo) There’s been some uproar lately over the plan to build a flood barrier in the Carmel River Lagoon and people have been asking on social media...
View ArticleFlashback! Julia Pfeiffer Burns in the 1960s
Just a few shots from the days before traffic jams and crowds… At the Waterfall House with my mother and sister in 1966. Notice how the waterfall drops directly into the ocean. The beach formed after a...
View ArticleSoberanes Fire: Week Seven
Important caveats: Please note that the squares on the heat detection maps represent the expected margin of error, not the size of the area burned. In other words, the detection could have come from...
View ArticleBig Sur River Above Flood Stage for Fifth Time This Year
South Coast oaks in the rain Heavy pre-dawn rain has pushed the Big Sur River above the 10-foot level that marks its official “flood stage” for the fifth time in less than two months. As of 9:00 am,...
View ArticleMud Creek Now Mud Point
Punta Barro: Big Sur’s newest geographical feature (photo credit: Rock Knocker) The Santa Lucia Mountains are very young. At just 5 million years old, they are still in the process of being born –...
View ArticleThe High Sierra Diaries of Alexander Eells: Part 1 – Sonora Backcountry 1898
Alexander Eells with John Muir and Muir’s daughters Wanda and Helen. Photo probably taken in Paradise Valley, above Kings Canyon, in July, 1902. Wanda and Helen would have been about 20 and 16 at the...
View ArticleForest Service Lifts Fire Restrictions Just in Time for a Red Flag Warning
7:30 pm; June 16, 2016: Sundowner winds blow the Sherpa Fire down from the Santa Ynez Mountains and onto the coastal terraces west of Santa Barbara (as viewed from the comfort of Cojo Anchorage). Dry...
View ArticleThe Big (Sur) One
Yesterday, April 30, 2019, at 10:10 am, a small, magnitude 3.4 earthquake rocked the seafloor 25 kilometers northwest of San Simeon. That’s just offshore from where the Monterey/San Luis Obispo County...
View ArticleRain Making
Lake Nacimiento The Reservoir Operations Committee of the Monterey County Water Resources Agency Board meets today to discuss options for dealing with the shrinking San Antonio and Nacimiento...
View ArticleSaint Serra
Junipero Serra Those of us who are neither Catholics nor saints probably shouldn’t care whom the Pope decides to honor as a saint. After all, previous Popes made saints of some pretty nasty people....
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