The Western States 100 Endurance Race, scheduled for Saturday June 28, 2008 has been cancelled because of poor air quality due to the overwhelming amount of wildfires in Northern California. For complete details on the cancellation please visit:
http://www.ws100.com/latestnews.htm
According to an article posted in USA Today.. California Gov., Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a statewide drought for the following reasons…
He’s gotta be out of his mind! So it’s a little dry. We had nearly a 100% snowpack and water agencies haven’t been trying to cut back on water. According to the April 1 numbers we’re looking at a “normal” season.
Turns out it has something to do with him trying to generate support for new water projects…
“Schwarzenegger is using the drought declaration to push his nearly $12 billion proposal to build more reservoirs and a canal to direct water around the troubled Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.”
~ Don Thompson, Associated Press
Hey Folks.. if you’re still reading this.. we’re not in a drought… its just a little dry. California’s dam controlled rivers like the South & Middle Fork of the American, the Tuolumne and the Lower Kern will have plenty of water to go rafting all summer long in 2008!
Photo courtesy of All-Outdoors California Whitewater Rafting
Here’s something pretty cool.
Camera Spots Wolverine in Sierra Nevada
By STEVE LAWRENCE, AP Posted: 2008-03-08 08:26:36 Filed Under: Science News
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (March 7) – A research project aimed at weasels has turned up a bigger prize: a picture of a wolverine, an elusive animal scientists feared may have been driven out of the Sierra Nevada long ago by human activity.
