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The Kings River (Spanish: Río de los Santos Reyes), is a 132.9-mile (213.9 km) [2] river draining the Sierra Nevada mountain range in central California in the United States. Its headwaters originate along the Sierra Crest in and around Kings Canyon National Park and form the eponymous Kings Canyon, one of the deepest river gorges in North ...
The purpose was to nearly double the storage capacity on the Kings River, as the existing Pine Flat Dam is unable to provide the high degree of flood protection for which it was originally built. [2] The original plan called for a concrete gravity dam 640 feet (200 m) high, which would have formed a reservoir flooding 11 miles (18 km) of the ...
The Kings River — a major river in central California, flowing from the Sierra Nevada into the San Joaquin Valley, within Fresno County and Kings County. Part of the San Joaquin River Basin and Tulare Basin watersheds, with notable diversions into the Central Valley Project .
Kings River, former name of Centerville, Fresno County, California Kings River (Arkansas) in Arkansas and Missouri, United States Kings River (California) in California, United States
The South Fork Kings River is a 44.1-mile (71.0 km) [2] tributary of the Kings River in the Sierra Nevada of Fresno County, California. The river forms part of Kings Canyon , the namesake of Kings Canyon National Park and one of the deepest canyons in North America with a maximum relief of 8,200 feet (2,500 m) from rim to river.
The Harris River Ranch property, over 7,000 acres near the Kings River along Trimmer Springs Road, has been proposed as a special study area and added to the Fresno County general plan.
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America had its own conservation movement in the 19th century, most often characterized by George Perkins Marsh, author of Man and Nature.The expedition into northwest Wyoming in 1871 led by F. V. Hayden and accompanied by photographer William Henry Jackson provided the imagery needed to substantiate rumors about the grandeur of the Yellowstone region, and resulted in the creation of ...