Drought exposing forgotten towns
By Jim Carlton, Wall Street Journal
EL DORADO HILLS — A severe drought plaguing much of the West is also bringing bits of its past back to life, as long-submerged historic artifacts and natural features are exposed by receding lake levels.
Near this Sacramento suburb, man-made Folsom Lake has receded to less than one-fifth of its capacity amid bone-dry conditions in California, recently revealing outskirts of a ghost town called Mormon Island founded during the mid-19th century gold rush. On an unseasonably warm winter day recently, throngs of visitors descended on the cracked mud flats of the reservoir to inspect hand-forged nails, rusted hinges and other vestiges of frontier life that were inundated when the lake was created in 1955.
California is entering its third year of drought, while much of the West has been abnormally dry for more than a decade.
In Utah, the decline of Lake Powell on the Colorado River to less than half its capacity in the past decade has uncovered artifacts including Native American ruins known as Fort Moki by 19th century pioneers. It has also restored some natural features, such as a towering waterfall called Cathedral in the Desert, that had been buried when the federal government dammed the river to create the giant reservoir in the 1960s.
To read the whole story, you have to subscribe to a news paper for 12 weeks ? B.S.
WSJ is strictly for-profit. Nothing wrong with that, but is certainly affects their perspective.
MSNBC isn’t for profit? CNN isn’t for profit? LTN and Tahoe Daily Tribune aren’t trying to make a profit?
How does that specifically ‘affect their perspectives’?
I too am irritated when directed to a “news” link where I need to get out my credit card to use it, or where there is the presumption of a prior subscription.
I think this is sloppy, or is probably connected to a revenue generating activity.
The Internet business model in use by virtually everyone owning a public site is where they get a fraction of a cent just to get an internet user to click on a link or a site, whether they purchase anything or not. It is sale of advertising, and seems to be the most reliable way to extract money from users.
Regarding the WSJ comments;
One might suspect the perspectives of a publication that, for instance, got all its operating costs from the Ku klux Klan.
Nothing is free….somebody has to pay.
The Wall Street paper is known for a fairly even handed editorial policy, but are called THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. (Emphasis mine). Their focus is largely business and economics. In the last years they have broadened significantly and added in more articles of general interest.
However, I am a cynic.
Can the WSJ be herded in one direction or another, to print or not to print or to slant a position, say, by a huge advertiser? Almost Certainly. And likely, so can the Lake Tahoe News.
It boils down to just a few factors, three of the more common ones being simple survival, exercise of power over other people or entities or pure greed.
Greed seems to drive more and more of our political and cultural directions than I can recall in my 5 Plus decades of life.
We are sorry that the link goes to the paid site of the WSJ. When we first read it this was not the case. We don’t have paid access either.
Our choice at this point is to leave the story up so those who want to pay for access to the full story can do so or we could take it down.
Please know we don’t get any revenue by linking to another entity’s paid site.
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Kathryn Reed, LTN publisher
The Wall St. Journal has been part of Rupert Murdoch’s ultra-conservative misinformation media empire since 2007. I think that for many years they were the at least rational voice of the conservative/business community. Starting in the late 90s they started becoming the unwavering voice of the exact big business banksters and K Street lobbyists that stole trillions and crashed our economy. And then came Murdoch.
“The Wall St. paper is known for a fairly even handed editorial policy…”, I guess that would be true if one also believes that another arm of Rupert’s stable, Fox, is really “news”.
I see the paper is slowly but surely eliminating the last few reasonable conservative political voices, the last few economic realist pundits and its broadening of content is just more of the same Murdoch tabloid model that has killed real journalism worldwide.
Of course I get much of my information from admittedly left-of-center journalistic outlets like http://www.democracynow.org with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez and http://www.thomhartmann.com whose books and radio and TV shows I rarely miss. I force myself to watch cable news and listen to some talk radio available here. I’d be interested to know if anyone else that comments here has ever heard of, or has an opinion of them, they don’t get very much coverage by corp. media and they have limited access to same.
Dog, fox isnt for profit too? Seems you forgot that one on your list of favorites.
Goes without saying. They actually make a profit, too. Unlike some of those others.
So profit is a good way to judge a source of news?
When Fox was at its most profitable it was suing to be able to tell blatant lies, and numerous studies showed that the more people watched it, the more uninformed and misinformed they tended to be.
Want to bring in more conservatives? Stop catering to dumbest common denominator.
Yes, if someone, or a large part of America, watches a different news source than you choose to, they’re less intelligent, and care less about the Country and World than you do. Give me a break!!
Kathryn Reed, we do not know each other but I appreciate your trying to keep us informed about our blue world and the rest of the outside world. LTN is doing a HELLUVA better job than Tahoe Tribune who thinks it is still 1998.
I too was perturbed when I got to the WSJ paid request but quickly accepted WSJ needs to charge or they would get lousy reporters. Kathryn explained and apologized. I think we should thank her for LTN instead of quickly jumping to chastise the LTN. If you can do a better job, THEN DO IT!
Thank you again Kathryn for giving us it’d bits of news that impact us and more importantly, for giving us blunder heads the forum to express our opinions and sometimes expose our lack of appreciation.
BTW, great point Parker!
Great point Parker!! Why should anyone clutter up their mind with anything that does’nt come directly from a ‘news’ outlet that is the propaganda arm of the GOP-sues for its right to lie in its reports-and gives its watchers exactly what they want to hear so they feel good about denying any inconvenient real world facts-founder and CEO Roger Ailes freely admits this was and remains the goal of this network-so GOP candidates can win elections by duping voters
Fox News is by far the best news source on the planet………if you’re a comedian!
TeaTotal, you don’t think CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and most of all, MSNBC, have slants, shall we say. It’s amazing to see the fit they throw cause their slant no longer has the monopoly!
Where again did Obama get his pr hack, Jay Carney from?
HEY PARKER! Jay Carney: from Virginia, earned a BA from Yale, worked for Miami Herald, Time Magazine & CNN. Oh, you have a problem with people that do that “learnin’ thing” don’t you PARKER and work their way up. Well, seems like the only “hack” is you PARKER.