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15K views · 374 reactions | Wildflowers at the Carrizo Plain National Monument are starting to bloom, but the monument manager says the best is yet to come! Read more here --> https://bit.ly/2HBh8JL | KSBY | Facebook

The charred valley floor of the Carrizo Plain National Monument, as the nearly 80,000-acre Madre Fire continues to burn tonight along the Caliente Range. The KCL campground, one of two public campgrounds in the area, has been burned. The fate of the other campground is unknown but it is likely burned too. To the left of this vantage point sits the San Andreas Fault and the Temblor Range. Faults on the Caliente Range side include the Big Spring Fault, the San Juan Fault, the Morales Fault, and th

We travelled to Carrizo Plain National Monument to learn about California's superbloom and as we did so, learned about why superblooms are so very important — for all of us! 🌼 Superblooms are relatively rare demonstrations of desert botanicals 🌱 The plants that create the flowers help to stabilize desert soil — holding it in place 🐝The flowers themselves are an important source of food for pollinators 🦋 Pollinators are important to humans because they are a key part of the food chain — they