Noozhawk

First Outdoors Guide Published for Cuyama Valley

Local nonprofit organization Los Padres ForestWatch has teamed up with Cuyama Buckhorn, a boutique roadside resort and restaurant, to publish a comprehensive guide to outdoor activities in the Cuyama ...
Edhat

Foothill Fire Grows to 462 Acres, 10% Contained; Evacuation Orders Remain in Cuyama Valley

Firefighters continued suppression efforts Wednesday morning on the Foothill Fire, which is now estimated at 462 acres with ...
Noozhawk

Dan McCaslin: The Glories of Sierra Madre Ridge and the Cuyama

“Whale rocks,” or boulders, in the beautiful Pine Corral meadow. (Dan McCaslin / Noozhawk photo) The remote Santa Barbara County backcountry potreros (meadows) along Sierra Madre Ridge above the ...
KEYT

County planners deflect a Cuyama Valley “Water Grab” by Harvard University

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – When a subsidiary of Harvard University’s investment company bought the North Fork Ranch in the parched high desert of the Cuyama Valley in 2012 and planted 840 acres of ...
The Guardian

Carrots farms v valley: the battle over a water-depleted California region

The Cuyama valley gets only 8in of water a year – and some of the US’s top carrot farms want a bigger share of the increasingly precious resource More than five years ago, Jim Wegis, a lifelong farmer ...