Reporting from Olancha — The drought has worked a miracle in the Owens Valley, as environmental activists and ranchers have buried decades of enmity to forge a plan to save ranch land — at the ...

A century ago, people in the Owens Valley carried out a defiant act of protest, taking over part of the L.A. Aqueduct and releasing water. An event this weekend focuses on the history of that ...

No water? No life. No wonder water is such a prize. Two hundred some-odd miles north of Los Angeles, Owens Valley lies in the shadow of the towering Sierra Nevada. Snow-fed streams rush down the ...

Looking down on the dry Owens Valley from the road to the Mt. Whitney portal. (Photo: Matt Holzman) (The original image is no longer available, please contact KCRW if you need access to the original ...

Sponsor Message The Owens Valley was a dusty place even before L.A.'s water diversions began. It's also a vast, sparsely populated place. But people here still have to live with the dust ...

Lone Pine >> Rancher John Lacey eyed a rising pasture where water once flowed when his great-grandfather settled in the Owens Valley to find gold. A century after Los Angeles diverted the Owens ...

“The Owens Valley is nothing but a resource colony,” Kathy Jefferson Bancroft, tribal historic preservation officer for the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Reservation, told me. Her office in Lone ...

Donate now. Over a century since Los Angeles grabbed land in the Owens Valley to steal water away for what would grow into a city of almost four million, a truce has been reached in a long-fought ...