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The Kern River Parkway Trail is a system of hiking and biking trails that extends along the Kern River from the mouth of the canyon to Hart Park in Bakersfield, California. The trail system is part of the larger Kern River Parkway, which includes several parks, picnic areas, and green spaces along the river.
The Kern Water Bank is a public-private partnership which oversees a 32-square-mile water recharge basin in California. [1] [2] It sources water from the Kern River, the State Water Project, and the Central Valley Project. [3] It stores underground up to 1.5 million acre feet of water (500 billion gallons). [4]
As a result, the city, and the surrounding agricultural water districts requested a court decree establishing water rights to the Kern River, and establishing groundwater rights within the city. The city also condemned the first 77,000 acre-feet (95,000,000 m 3) of Kern River water and wanted payment for damages to any party that violated it ...
The Kern River — a major river in central California, flowing from the southern Sierra Nevada into the San Joaquin Valley, within Kern County and Tulare County. Part of the Tulare Basin watershed , and a former tributary of the San Joaquin River before late 19th century diversions for agriculture and the Central Valley Project .
Buena Vista Lake was the second largest of several similar lakes in the Tulare Lake basin, and was fed by the waters of the Kern River. The Kern River's flow went into Buena Vista Lake southwest through the site of Bakersfield via its main distributary channels or south through the Kern River Slough distributary into Kern Lake and then into ...
In return for Kern's service to the expedition, Frémont named it the Kern River. Gold was discovered near the valley in 1853, leading to the Kern River Gold Rush and the founding of Keyesville . On April 9, 1863, U.S. Army cavalry along with local settlers captured and executed 35 Tübatulabal and Kawaiisu men in what became known as the ...
The Golden trout is the official freshwater state fish of California since 1947. [2] [3] The California golden trout is closely related to two rainbow trout subspecies. The Little Kern golden trout (O. m. whitei), found in the Little Kern River basin, and the Kern River rainbow trout (O. m. gilberti), found in the Kern River system. Together ...
Kern River Slough was the distributary of the Kern River running northwest from the vicinity of Bakersfield [1] to Goose Lake near Tulare Lake in Kern County, California. [ 2 ] These former bodies of water in the Tulare Lake Basin of the San Joaquin Valley have now all been diverted for agricultural use.