Center News and Notes

Randy Fiorini in his Merced County walnut orchard. Five years ago, the Fiorini home’s groundwater well ran dry.

Even after record-setting fires devastated communities around the West, resistance to policies to reduce housing vulnerability persists, particularly if they constrain development.

Location, Location, Location Interstate 70 and the Colorado River transect Garfield County, Colorado, which is perched between Rocky Mountain resorts and the natural resources industr

Manifold Destiny Members of an 81-vehicle Army convoy struggled to get a truck back on the road – such as it was – during a cross-country trip in the summer of 1919.  

When the Smog Rolled In Traffic on the Hollywood Freeway near Ventura Boulevard in the spring of 1972, left. Right, downtown Los Angeles in 1973.