One of the advantages to the low water level at Lake Oroville is the exposure of some Californian Indian artifacts that are usually 50 feet below water. The divots that you see on the right hand side were created by the Maidu Indians who inhabited this part of California for the past 2000 years. These…
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While driving past Lake Oroville in the Northern Sierra foothills recently, I was taken back by how drastically low the water level was. On a whim, I pulled off at a public boat launch to take a closer look and was lucky enough to run into a local resident. Lake Oroville is the second largest…

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