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Shasta Indian Nation to get homeland back in largest land return in California history

The Iron Gate Dam in Hornbrook, Calif., is among Klamath River dams being removed. Gavin Newsom has set in motion the largest land return in California history, declaring his support for the return of ancestral lands to the Shasta Indian Nation that were seized a century ago and submerged. Fish and Wildlife, along with the California Natural Resources Agency, will …

Pit River Bridge, which spans Lake Shasta, and the adjacent marina are shown May 9. Lake Shasta, the state’s largest reservoir, is full again after reaching perilously low levels in the drought-stricken years from 2019 through 2022. On that day, the lake’s bathtub ring was gone, with water covering the supports on the Pit River Bridge as well as previously …

In the last five years, the western US state has experienced the largest and most destructive fires in its history. The fire that began Friday near a wood products plant quickly blew into a neighbourhood on the northern edge of Weed but then carried the flames away from the city of about 2,600 people. Allison Hendrickson, spokeswoman for Dignity Health …

It’s not even summer, and California’s two largest reservoirs are at ‘critically low’ levels

A houseboat is beached at Shasta Lake in late June 2021, amid a parched summer. At a point in the year when California’s water storage should be at its highest, the state’s two largest reservoirs have already dropped to critically low levels — a sobering outlook for the hotter and drier months ahead. Lake Oroville, the largest reservoir in the …

California reservoirs: The state’s two largest are already at ‘critically low levels’ and the dry season is just starting

CNN — Against the backdrop of the water crisis in the Colorado River Basin, where the country’s largest reservoirs are plunging at an alarming rate, California’s two largest reservoirs — Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville — are facing a similar struggle. Shasta Lake is the largest reservoir in the state and the cornerstone of California’s Central Valley Project, a complex …