Driving 140 miles to the remote and glorious Carrizo Plain at the end of April, we entered a vast dome of blue sky with surrounding low mountain ranges creating a magnificent “bowl” effect below and ...

Fields of wildflowers are blooming in the Carrizo Plain National Monument, coloring the hills and the shores of a full Soda Lake in swaths of yellow. Fields of wildflowers paint the Temblor Range ...

Spring has rolled out a carpet of golden flowers across the Carrizo Plain, merging with a bright, blue sky on the horizon. The breeze carries a hush across the landscape — stirring tall, dense stands ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. —Wildflowers are blooming in abundance this year in California as the Golden State received ample ...

Hours past midnight, a family of curious animals scurried about a California plain. A trail camera captured a group of San Joaquin kit foxes at their den site at Carrizo Plain National Monument in San ...