Tag: Owens Valley
CityDig: Here’s What Owens Lake Looked Like Before Los Angeles Drank It Dry
This 1939 map shows the bucolic valley that Fred Eaton and William Mulholland would turn into a wasteland
Framed: The St. Francis Dam Was a Glorious Disaster About to Happen
10 paintings by Rob Reynolds in the NHM's "Just Add Water" contemplate the L.A. Aqueduct.
Dust to Dust: The Evolution of the Owens Valley
A century after being drained by los angeles, water comes trickling back into the dessicated Owens Valley
The Weekender: The Eastern Sierra
The towns are small and the wilderness is vast in Northern California’s underappreciated Owens Valley