Owens Valley and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the high desert environment that is drier today due to a century's worth of water diversions to Los Angeles, some 200 miles away. In the West, fights ...

A wind-driven wildfire erupted this week in California’s remote Owens Valley, just east of the Sierra Nevada. By Thursday afternoon the blaze, dubbed the "Airport Fire," was 0% contained and had ...

Owens Valley officials are using eminent domain to loosen Los Angeles' century-long grip on the ... commerce and ranchlands along a 112-mile stretch of Highway 395 east of the Sierra Nevada. ...

OLANCHA, Calif. — Spirits live here. That’s what Paiute and Shoshone tribal members say about the Owens Lake playa, an arid, eerily flat expanse along the eastern Sierra Nevada range that is ...

In the past, severe storms such as Tropical Storm Kay and Tropical Storm Hilary have flooded Owens’ off-lake dust sources, ...

Two hundred some-odd miles north of Los Angeles, Owens Valley lies in the shadow of the towering Sierra Nevada. Snow-fed streams rush down the slopes to converge in the Owens River.

A couple of the chapters in my 2001 book, The San Fernando Valley: America's Suburb, deal with construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and how water from the distant Sierra changed the city and the ...

Several tribes in Owens Valley in the eastern Sierra Nevada see hope in small property transfers that have become part of a growing “Land Back” movement.

Owens Valley along the eastern Sierra Nevada was jolted by an earthquake Friday, but no damage was reported, officials said. The magnitude 3.4 quake was centered 11 miles south of Lone Pine, ...

The Owens Valley is an 80-mile-long, stirringly dramatic gorge — one of the deepest in the country — hewn between the vertiginous wall of the Sierra Nevada to the west and the White and Inyo ...

View Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada from Owens Valley, California by Ansel Adams on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Ansel Adams. Price Database. 29 October 2024. Artists. Auctions.

View Evening Clouds and Pool, East Side of the Sierra Nevada from the Owens Valley, California by Ansel Adams on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Ansel Adams. Price Database. 02 April ...