March for the Kern River
About 30 hardy souls marched the length of the dry Kern River bed — nine miles — from near Manor Street in east Bakersfield all the way to Stockdale Highway Saturday morning to protest the lack of water in the river. At the start of the hike, the group filled bottles and jugs with water from the river, which ends shortly after Manor Street as it’s divvied up by a hydra of irrigation canals.