It is presumed to have occurred throughout the 957,000 acres of wetlands and riparian areas that once surrounded Tulare, Buena Vista, Kern, and Goose Lakes. Today only four tiny populations are known ...

When Nora Bruhn bought admission to the Lightning in a Bottle arts and music festival on the shores of Kern County's Buena ...

With a voracious appetite for insects, a long snout, and beady little eyes, the Buena Vista Lake ornate shrew is one intriguing mammal ... protecting six areas on the floor of the Central Valley in ...