Commentary: Amid Sierra Nevada’s Splendid Weather, Drought Lurks
From the San Francisco Chronicle, in Tom Stienstra’s Outdoors column:
“One sight that alarmed me last week was at a remote natural spring I’ve returned to many times, where the water is cold and sweet and pumps like a perpetual fountain. From the drought and low snowpack last winter, it was already a trickle. I haven’t seen it go dry, but this could be the year.”