EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. – It is not yet 10 a.m. on a rainy spring morning, and a computer in the Wetsel-Oviatt sawmill already reads 797 trees turned into boards since dawn. Sawdust fills the air as workers wearing ear plugs roll white fir through an assembly line of blades. This mill in the hills […]
Haley Nolde
Posted inMay 21, 2001: Quenching the big thirst
Living off a leaky canal
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. MEXICALI VALLEY, Baja California, Mexico – Just north of the U.S.-Mexico border, the All-American Canal courses west from the Colorado River to the farms of California’s Imperial Valley. Most of the clear, fresh water rushes toward the perfect rows of alfalfa, lettuce and carrots […]