Old Kernville is reappearing in shriveling Lake Isabella due to California drought
With the ongoing drought, local lakes and rivers are facing the impacts of wildlife dying… and communities reemerging? Residents of the Kern County community of Kernville may have noticed a reemerging city as the drought soaks up Lake Isabella. According to Dianna Anderson, a Kern River Museum curator, pig styes and cedars of Murphy Ranch of Old Kernville are starting to reemerge from the lake in the Southern Sierra Nevada.