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The Friant-Kern Canal and the Delta-Mendota Canal are two of four projects that are being considered for repaired from subsidence damages. For example, Senate Bill 559 sought to provide over $400 million in funds to repair the Friant-Kern Canal. However, Governor Newsom vetoed the bill in search of broader state-wide solutions to subsidence ...
The first recorded case of land subsidence was in the 1940s. Land subsidence can be as little as local land collapsing or as large as an entire region's land being lowered. The subsidence can lead to infrastructural and ecosystem damage. Lowering of the water table, which makes water harder to reach streams and rivers
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) operates eight Demonstration State Forests totaling 71,000 acres. The forests represent the most common forest types in the state. The State Forests grow approximately 75 million board feet of timber annually and harvest an average of 30 million board feet each year, enough to ...
In the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma, the Smokehouse Creek fire in February 2024 was the largest in state history. It killed two people, burned more than 1.2 million acres and destroyed ...
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The Lost Pines Forest is a 13-mile (21 km) belt of loblolly pines (Pinus taeda) in the U.S. state of Texas, near the town of Bastrop.The stand of pines is unique in Texas because it is a disjunct population of trees that is more than 100 miles (160 km) separated from, and yet closely genetically related to, the vast expanse of pine trees of the Piney Woods region that covers parts of Texas ...
The death toll had climbed to five people, as the fast-moving wildfires continued to sweep across the LA area. The Palisades fire had burned more than 17,200 acres, while the Eaton fire has ...
In 1949 he served as the district geologist. He headed the project to delineate and calculate the storage capacity of California's aquifer systems. This work was essential to the creation of the California Water Plan. [1] In 1956 he led a survey to investigate aquifer mechanics and the causes of land subsidence in Sacramento, California. [5]