BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Kern County Desert has begun to see the affects of the Golden State’s increasing drought. The weekly U.S. Drought Monitor Report shows a portion of the Kern County ...
(Photo: National Park Service) Absent intervention by state wildlife officials, Nevada’s state animal, the desert bighorn sheep, may see its herds thinned by starvation because of drought.
The weekly U.S. Drought Monitor Report shows a portion of the Kern County desert has now been upgraded to a dark orange, classifying it in the D2 “severe drought” status. However it’s not ...
Nearly 99% of the county is affected by the drought, and it recorded its eighth-driest December in the past 130 years. Paris Barraza is a trending reporter covering California news at The Desert Sun.
Absent intervention by state wildlife officials, Nevada’s state animal, the desert bighorn sheep, may see its herds thinned by starvation because of drought. “Over the course of the last month and a ...