River No Longer Dry!!!!! Why????

Today Oct.25 I was talking with one of the locals and he asked if I had heard??  A week and a half ago the South Fork of the Kern River started flowing and was at normal summer depths within a 24 hour period!!!!  There has been no authoritative explanation and there has been no substantial precipitation.

So the speculation and rumors abound.  Government or pot growers stealing or diverting the water or who knows? Someone has to know.

Thank goodness we have the water and hope it will stay.  Sure would like to know the explanation.

And will a beaver return?? This is a great beaver place of many dams and canals which we saw on our dry riverbed walk [Dry Riverbed Hike]  In the photo below, there is a beaver dam where the blue water ends.

Oct 25 2014 Water!!!; Beaver Dam Where Water Ends in Distance

Several Weeks earlier , same vantage point