September 29, 2009:Parts of California’s second-longest river have run dry for 60 years. This week, water will flow once again through the storied San Joaquin. Soon, if all goes well, salmon will follow.
Kiera Butler
Kiera Butler is an associate editor at Mother Jones magazine. Her environmental writing has appeared in Plenty, Orion and the Columbia Journalism Review. She lives in Berkeley, Calif.