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Drought brings California gold prospectors back life
2014-06-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: David Fiori, waist-deep in the chilly Kern River, braced against the current, stabbed a shovel into the ancient silt between his feet and tossed the muck downstream. His eyes, though, wandered to a potential prize - a spot on the opposite bank of the river. To the uninitiated, it looked like just another leafy bend in the 165-mile-long Kern, which carries the snowmelt of the Sierra Nevada toward the sea. But prospectors have had a different sort of perspective in this stretch of California for...
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