- Author: Thomas Getts
Published on: August 27, 2018
![Defoliated tamarisk, some willows coming up in the understory.](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCDWeedScience/blogfiles/54831small.jpg)
Defoliated tamarisk, some willows coming up in the understory.
Heat is something that many Californians are used to, and live with for several months out of the year, but prolonged triple digit heat is not something I am used to in my corner of the state. Sure it gets hot up here in Lassen County, but there is most often a place to retreat from the heat.
A couple of weeks ago I was feeling hot, sweltering in the triple digits of Canyonlands National Park in Utah, which in all honesty would be considered a moderate day for my colleagues down in the Imperial Valley. But, I live in northern California, and what I was seeing made me think I was hallucinating from the heat. I did a double take because a good portion of the vegetation surrounding the river was turning brown and dropping their...
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