Over the last three weeks, ecologist Rae McNeish and her students have watched as a flowing river has abruptly dwindled to a dry riverbed. While conducting biological surveys along the Kern River in Bakersfield, they have seen water retreat into stagnant pools and then vanish, leaving stretches of bare sand and cracked mud. They have found some fish flopping helplessly along the banks, and masses of dead fish scattered on the riverbed by the hundreds.
Bonnie Compton said she has been living along the river for more than a decade. She said she lives in a tent with her husband, and they have been alarmed by the sudden drop in the river and the dying fish. “We used to be able to sit and watch the fish and enjoy the view,” Compton said.
“This place had actually started to become beautiful again, and now it’s turning into the desert. It’s horrible,” she said. “They’re killing the fish.
They’re killing our wildlife. Everything’s dying. We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly.
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