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Articles needing improvement

• Theodore Roosevelt National Park, move content to appropriate sections sections
• Endangered Species Act, move content to appropriate sections sections
• Conservation in the United States, integrate Native American and their relationship with bison
• Isaac Hale Beach Park: add to eruption article, use news links in citation to expand description of former use and improvement plans including impact on local fishing industry
• California Senate Bill 35 (2017) update examples and new legislation if it passes
• Ventura Botanical Gardens
• Oxnard Chinatown
• Chamberlain rock
• Killing of bears and wolves in Alaska
• Quivira National Wildlife Refuge - water rights
• Wolverine
• Yurok Regalia Meaning

• California Coastal Commission,
  This section is an excerpt from Talk:California Coastal Commission § "Project permits and proposals" section.[edit]

It is clear that this section is basically an aggregation of actions/events taken by the CCC. I would like to suggest that rather than simply trimming this section, we look at each paragraph (and sources) to see whether it can be used as a summary/example of the types of policy goals the CCC undertakes. I like that we have a section "Affordable overnight coastal accommodations" (don't remember whether Fettlemap or I did that) that explains what some policy goal is and how the CCC implements/enforces that goal.

Also, I think that descriptions of events which led to appellate court decisions would generally be considered notable, as well as cases that led to decisions which define the scope of the CCC's power (for example, the statement that starts with "In 2005, the commission found Dennis Schneider's proposed...." is good as it stands, in my opinion.

As one specific case, I think that the statement (towards the end) "In 2015, the commission approved a construction project for SeaWorld San Diego ....." should be made larger, since this got nationwide press coverage, and sources talk about how the movie Blackfish (film) had influence on public opinion and thereby influenced CCC discussions and should be mentioned, but isn't.

But the sentence that follows: "In 2020, a commission investigation found the city of Long Beach guilty..." seems of little value....I propose that sources like that be used to support an overall paragraph like the one I tried to re-instate here (but was not written by me; we could write it more neutrally) which gives an overview of many of their lesser activities but still mentions them.

What do others think?---Avatar317^(talk) 05:28, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

If there are instances that you think are important to include, then perhaps we can include those. But maybe just a few, and trimmed of the excess detail. I still have a hard time seeing the reader benefit of listing every action they took and then dueling over over what spin to put on it. I don't have access to the LA Times, so I can't read many of the sources. But right now it seems like this article is being written mostly by California-based editors with axes to grind. And that's why it's good when articles are written and edited by neutral parties. I'm overwhelmed trying to sift through each one of these paragraphs to determine what should be included. We should blank the section and start over, one by one. Otherwise, it's not fair to other editors. Pyrrho the Skipper (talk) 16:01, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

There are no current content disputes that I am aware of. Let's improve the article and not worry about who is doing what. You do not "have to do ALL the work of going through each entry and each source." That is not how editing works. I think that is in conformance to Wikipedia policies. Cheers, Fettlemap (talk) 17:37, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

There is a dispute. I believe the content in the section needs to be removed, so we can discuss what should be there, and avoid the current bloat. That would be "improving" the article. But what you want seems to be to just keep the bloat, and then scrutinize it one-by-one, while the bloated content remains. That's the dispute. Pyrrho the Skipper (talk) 17:46, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

I don't see the temporary harm of the bloated content. Remember, there is no urgency to Wikipedia, it is always a work in progress. Some essays: WP:WIP and WP:TIND. It sat for a year like this. What is the urgency to immediately fix this?

I'm not saying that the content can't be trimmed, nor that we should reward effort with content inclusion, but many of these sources are hard to find, and I believe that other visiting editors (and potential new editors) will find it easier (and are more likely) to improve the article when they have access to many sources WITHIN the article, and see statements from those sources. Many editors will not necessarily want to dig very hard for sources. In my opinion, we should care more about a better article long-term, than a short-term bad appearing article. ---Avatar317^(talk) 20:32, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Pyrrho the Skipper, thanks for clarifying that there is no dispute over content but only the editing method. You prefer blanking the section which is typically used only for content that can't be salvaged. The case has been made that this content has been and will be improved and there is no Wikipedia editing guideline for blanking the section. Cheers, Fettlemap (talk) 20:55, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

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Misc

• Montalvo Cutoff
• Doug Smith, Yellowstone Wolf Project
• Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team
• California housing
• Tribe Wildfire
• Clean Water Act
• After landslide, an Orange County beach town finds itself between a bluff and a hard place, Good to use for San Clemente and Orange County
• "Why scientists have pumped a potent greenhouse gas into streams on public lands". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-08-19.</ref>

Grover, Joel; Glasser, Matthew. "LA's Nuclear Secret | NBC Los Angeles". data.nbcstations.com. Retrieved 2022-08-19.</ref>

Harris, Mike. "Water board's vote clears path for Boeing's clean up of toxic site near Simi Valley". Ventura County Star. Retrieved 2022-08-19.</ref>

"'We have to remake ourselves': Can a new trail help revive this crest of the Sierra?". Los Angeles Times. 2022-08-14. Retrieved 2022-08-19.</ref>

"Risk of catastrophic California 'megaflood' has doubled due to global warming, researchers say". Los Angeles Times. 2022-08-12. Retrieved 2022-08-19.</ref>

"Climate change makes catastrophic flood twice as likely, study shows". UCLA. Retrieved 2022-08-19.</ref>

Golden, Contessa Brewer,Jessica (2022-06-07). "'Yellowstone' boom pits lifetime Montana residents against wealthy newcomers". CNBC. Retrieved 2022-08-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)</ref>

"Los Angeles Warehousing Mecca Halts Expansion Just as Needs Soar". Bloomberg.com. 2022-08-15. Retrieved 2022-08-19.</ref>

Roth, Sammy (2022-08-12). "California could lend PG&E $1.4 billion to save Diablo Canyon nuclear plant". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2022-08-19.</ref>

"Montana ag community reacts to American Prairie bison grazing announcement". www-krtv-com.cdn.ampproject.org. Retrieved 2022-08-19.</ref>

"Marina Coast Water District plans to restart dormant desalination plant". KSBW. Retrieved 2022-09-22.</ref>

"Wyoming Wildlife Crossings: How Wildlife Officials Got Animals To Use Them". Cowboy State Daily. 2022-09-21. Retrieved 2022-09-22.</ref>

"First Wildlife Overpass Across Interstate 80 In Wyoming To Be Built Near Elk Mountain". Cowboy State Daily. 2022-09-14. Retrieved 2022-09-22.</ref>

Bolstad, Erika (September 23, 2022). "States Return Indigenous Oral Histories to Tribal Control". Stateline. Pew Trusts. Retrieved 2022-09-25.</ref> added to Samuel Proctor Oral History Program

"Bison country is changing — and not for the better. But the future is unwritten". Los Angeles Times. 2022-09-29. Retrieved 2022-10-11.</ref>

"San Marcos Foothills Preserve in Santa Barbara has an unusual way to support the natural habitat". KCLU. 2022-12-22. Retrieved 2023-01-03.</ref>

River, Buckrail @ (2023-03-13). "Understanding wildlife: Collaring an animal isn't just for biologists". Buckrail - Jackson Hole, news. Retrieved 2023-03-16.</ref>

[https://goo.gl/maps/Jm3WbPjDG1A5aPnG6 Rocketdyne plant site near Warner center]

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American Legion Post 43

This section is an excerpt from Hollywood Heights, Los Angeles § Notable places.[edit]

American Legion Post 43 (2035 N. Highland Avenue) is a distinctive example of Egyptian Revival and Moroccan Art Deco architecture. Designed by Weston & Weston architects and completed in 1929, the building is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. Its members have included Clark Gable, Stan Lee, Mickey Rooney, Gene Autry, Charlton Heston, and Ronald Reagan. It served as the venue for Los Angeles' longest-running play, Tamara, from 1984 to 1993. It has a 482-seat, state-of-the-art movie theater that was previously a live music venue played by groups including The Doors.

Proposed airport fencing

In 2012 Modoc County, California officials applied for a grant from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fund a new 8 feet (2.4 m) tall and 3 miles (4.8 km) long fence around the nearby Tulelake Municipal Airport, to keep animals off the runway. The Tule Lake Committee and related groups working to preserve the historical integrity of the former Tule Lake War Relocation Center and related Camp Tulelake have opposed the airport fence. It would surround the site of most of the prison's barracks — nearly 46 complete "blocks" and portions of several others — impeding visitors and desecrating the physical and spiritual integrity of the camp. The Stop the Fence at Tulelake Airport organization has explained, "A fence will prevent all Americans from experiencing the dimension and magnitude of the concentration camp where people experienced mass exclusion and racial hatred."

The opponents note that being excluded from the area would especially affect former internees and their descendants, who make regular pilgrimages to the former incarceration site and their specific assigned barracks. Those who make the pilgrimage want the ability to walk throughout the massive camp and imagine the experiences of the internees. "They want to traverse the site to experience the dimension and magnitude of the place, to gain a sense of the distances family members walked in their daily routine to eat meals, attend school, to do laundry and use the latrines. They want to summon up the ghosts of the place, to revive long-suppressed memories and to mourn personal and collective loss."

Actor George Takei, held as a child with his family at the concentration camp, has worked in support of the petition against the fence. Takei has said, "We must not permit this history to be erased and minimized by destroying the integrity of the site or making it inaccessible to future generations."

Water in Ventura County

• Metropolitan Water District
  • Triunfo in Oak Park
  • The city of Thousand Oaks, California Water Service Co. Westlake and California American Water, all in the Conejo Valley
  • The city of Camarillo
  • Camrosa Water District in Camarillo
  • Golden State Water Company in Simi Valley
  • Ventura County Waterworks District No. 8 in Simi Valley
  • Ventura County Waterworks District No. 1 in Moorpark
• communities without imported water have limited water supplies. Lake Casitas provides drinking water for the Ojai Valley and parts of Ventura

References

The Overlooked Americans

“The Overlooked Americans” is a book by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett that analyzes the lives of people in rural America. The book uses surveys, demographic data, and interviews to explore the complex identities and views of rural Americans. The book challenges conventional wisdom and stereotypes about rural America, and shows that life in rural America is often more complex and varied than people think. The book also shows that rural America is not hopelessly divided from urban America. Currid-Halkett is a public policy professor at the University of Southern California. She wrote the book to answer the question of how people in cities and suburbs can relate to their rural counterparts. Only 14% of Americans live in rural areas.

Battle of Walker’s Creek

This section is an excerpt from Pinta Trail (Texas) § History.[edit]

In June 1844, a squad of Texas Rangers led by the legendary Captain Jack Hays fought a band of Comanche warriors led by Yellow Wolf in an engagement known as the Battle of Walker’s Creek. The fight is notable for the rangers’ use of the new Colt Paterson 5-shot revolver. One participant in the battle places it at the Pinta Trail ford of the Guadalupe River; another places it about four miles east. Hays’s own report does not mention the Pinta Trail, even though he surveyed the trail at the ford five years earlier.

This section is an excerpt from Samuel Hamilton Walker § Walker Colt.[edit]

Walker is best known as the co-inventor of the Walker Colt revolver, along with arms manufacturer Samuel Colt. Walker is said to have self-funded a trip to New York City to meet with Colt and proposed to him the concept of a weapon based on the then-popular five-shot Colt Paterson revolver, with many enhancements such as adding a sixth round, being powerful enough to kill either a man or a horse with a single shot and quicker to reload.

Colt's firearms company was no longer in business, but the large order allowed Colt to establish a new company. He hired Eli Whitney Junior, already in the arms business, to make his new revolvers. Colt asked Samuel Walker, who happened to be temporarily stationed in Washington, to help him with the design.

Colt used his prototype and Walker's improvements to create a new design. Whitney produced the first thousand-piece order, known as the Colt Walker. The company then received an order for an additional one thousand more. Colt's share of the profits was $10.

By 1847, the new revolver was available. The United States Army's mounted rifle companies were issued them, and they proved extremely effective.

The death of Capt. Walker

TRUTH Act

The Transparent Review of Unjust Transfers and Holds Act (TRUTH Act) is a California state law.

It was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in 2016. 
The TRUTH Act requires local governing bodies to hold a community forum to receive and consider public comment if local law enforcement has provided any Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) access to an individual. 
The forum must be held annually. 

The TRUTH Act was passed in response to the growing number of immigrants who were being detained by local law enforcement and then turned over to federal immigration authorities.

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Just days later, as a vigil was held for those impacted by the shooting, the massive Hill Fire and Woolsey Fire threatened the community, burning homes across Ventura and Los Angeles Counties. The fires would continue through almost the entire month of November charring almost 100,000 acres and consuming multiple homes in the region as it burned through Agoura Hills, Westlake Village, and Thousand Oaks, all the way to the Malibu coastline.

Flannery Associates LLC

This section is an excerpt from Travis Air Force Base § Flannery Associates LLC.[edit]

Aerial view of Travis AFB in 2023, showing relatively arid land around the base

Between 2018 and 2023, Flannery Associates LLC purchased over 50,000 acres of land near the air base, prompting investigations into the company's beneficial ownership and widespread media attention. In August of 2023, it was revealed that Flannery Associates was a subsidiary of California Forever, which planned to build a city on the land.

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Reparations

"Is California giving reparations for slavery? Here's what you need to know". Los Angeles Times. 2023-05-07. Retrieved 2023-05-08.</ref>

This section is an excerpt from Altadena, California § History.[edit]

Woodbury–Story House (1882), the home of Capt. John Woodbury, is extant and occupied.

In 2022, Altadena gained local coverage in Los Angeles as the place of the first land return to the Tongva since the arrival of Europeans in the Los Angeles Basin area, after a resident donated her 1 acre property to the Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy. It was described as marking the first time in nearly 200 years that the Tongva have had land in Los Angeles County.

Central Valley levees and flooding

See also: User:Adflatuss/2023 California Coast storm

More

HSR dams are not ready

Corcoran levee Refusal of area to participate in levee improvements

Good start citation

Land Barons

This section is an excerpt from Central Valley land subsidence.[edit]

The Central Valley is an agriculturally productive region dependent on large volumes of irrigation water. This region is considered arid to semiarid and is reliant on infrastructure to deliver water. The Central Valley is prone to excessive flooding due to snowmelt from the surrounding Sierra Nevada mountain range in the spring. A controlled system of dams and canals have been built by state and federal agencies to ensure a steady flow of water into the valley primarily to support agriculture. The California State Water Project and the Central Valley Project are the two main projects diverting surface water into the valley. This system helps prevent spring flooding and summer and fall water shortages.

This section is an excerpt from Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta § Effects of the levee system and freshwater diversion.[edit]

Land subsidence in the Delta as of 1995

The levee system allowed farmers to drain and reclaim almost 500,000 acres (780 sq mi; 2,000 km²) of the Delta, then a tidal marsh. Once the rivers were confined to their riverbeds, the peat soil of the former tidal marsh was exposed to oxygen. As the oxygen-rich peat soil decomposed and then released carbon dioxide, profound subsidence of the land resulted, of up to 25 feet since the late 1800s.

Currently, most of the Delta is below sea level, with a great deal of the western and central Delta at least 15 feet (4.6 m) below sea level. The California Department of Water Resources has experimented with re-flooding areas for wetland restoration, in order to sequester carbon and rebuild soil levels. In addition, shallow flooding of land to restore anaerobic conditions is used as a sedimentation enhancing strategy to reduce subsidence and restore the wetlands in the Delta.

Land subsidence has endangered the Delta's system of protective levees, occasionally triggering levee failure and subsequent flooding.

Using the Delta as the primary valve in a linear water system may have been convenient for a period, but that convenience has come at a high price for the environment.

—Paul Shigley, The Devil Is in the Delta (2012)

Land subsidence also allows brackish water intrusion into the Delta, an issue compounded by the diversion of up to 25% of the freshwater flowing into the Delta. The decreased volume of freshwater in the Delta has had a profound effect on its ecology. In most years, large dams in the Delta watershed fully hold back spring runoff; as a result the Delta is most susceptible to salinity intrusion between February and June. However, regulation provided by dams helps boost freshwater flows during dry summers and autumns, reducing the risk of salinity intrusion in these months.

Diversions located at the southern end of the Delta, however, have negated some of the benefits of upstream dams. The powerful pumps that supply water for the Central Valley Project and State Water Project cause water in the Delta to flow from north to south instead of the natural direction of east to west. This has caused multiple environmental issues, such as the disruption of fish migration and salinity buildup in the eastern Delta, where salts can no longer be flushed to the sea by natural river flows.

This section is an excerpt from Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta § Levee failures.[edit]

Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta at flood stage, spring 2009. Photo by Doc Searls.

Since 1900, there have been over 160 levee failures in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. These numbers include multiple failures of a single levee structure. Levee failures, also known as breaches, can be caused by overtopping or structural failure. One of the most recent examples of levee failure in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta occurred in June 2004 when a levee breach caused more than 150,000 acre-feet (190,000,000 m³) of water to flood the entire island of Jones Tract.

But, the significant improvements made to the Delta levee system since 1982 have reduced the incidence of failures to this one major failure in 30 years. The most up-to-date description and discussion of the Delta levee system can be found in the Economic Sustainability Plan of the Delta Protection Commission. This study concluded that the Delta levee system is now relatively robust but should be improved to effectively eliminate the risk of failure in extreme floods and earthquakes. It emphasizes the significant value of the infrastructure that passes through the Delta, including water conveyance, in addition to life and property, and the value of the Delta as a Place.

A 2019 article states that "a catastrophic levee failure, defined as 20 islands flooding at once, has a 62 percent chance of occurring in the next two decades if subsidence isn’t addressed."

Simultaneous levee failures on the Delta's 57 islands in the wake of an earthquake which allow the inflow of brackish San Francisco Bay waters could threaten the water supply for the Central Valley, which includes both the irrigation water for its $17 billion agricultural economy and the drinking water for about 25 million people.

This section is an excerpt from Floods in California.[edit]

Floodwaters at Nevada City, California in 2017

All types of floods can occur in California, though 90 percent of them are caused by river flooding in lowland areas. Such flooding generally occurs as a result of excessive rainfall, excessive snowmelt, excessive runoff, levee failure, poor planning or built infrastructure, or a combination of these factors. Below is a list of flood events that were of significant impact to California.

A 2022 study found that Climate change in California, is likely to increase the extremity of water cycle events such as droughts and megafloods, greatly increasing the severity of future floods due to atmospheric rivers. In part this is due to the expectation that the Sierra Nevada mountains, which typically retain water as snow, will no longer be as cold.

These paragraphs are an excerpt from Stockton, California § Climate.[edit]

A 2018 federal study predicts that flooding of the San Joaquin River could possibly cause much of Stockton to become submerged beneath 10–12 feet of water, causing a humanitarian disaster as costly and deadly as Hurricane Katrina if the levees are not upgraded.

These paragraphs are an excerpt from Great Flood of 1862 § Current interest.[edit]

The storm was not an unprecedented occurrence. Geologic evidence has been found that massive floods, of equal or greater magnitude to the 1861–1862 event, have occurred in California roughly every 100 to 200 years. The United States Geological Survey has developed a hypothetical scenario, known as the "ARkStorm" (named for an atmospheric river event that has the likelihood of occurring once per 1,000 years), that would occur should a similar event occur in modern-day California. If such a storm were to occur today, it would probably cause over $725 billion to $1 trillion in damage. The likelihood of a massive flooding event is estimated to have been increased due to climate change.

This section is an excerpt from Locke, California § History.[edit]

Building sagging with age

Boardwalk with plenty of greenery between buildings

Memorial in Locke to Chinese immigrants and laborers

Legislation such as the Swampland Reclamation Act of 1861 was enacted in California to put perceived empty and wasted lands to use and stabilization. Much of this involved draining the Delta wetlands and building levees to regulate flood control in places like Locke. Mainly poor Chinese immigrants were hired to do this backbreaking reclamation work. Contracted labor was often paid the equivalent of less than one dollar a day per worker. They built hundreds of miles of levees in waist deep water where malaria still rampaged, reclaiming a total 88,000 acres (36,000 ha).

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