A sign at the mouth of the Kern River Canyon, which tallies the number of lives lost in the river since 1968, is updated each spring to add deaths that occurred over the previous 12 months.

Source: https://abc7.com/california-rivers-snowpack-snow/13303244/

Just before dawn the cavalry detachment came to the place where the north fork of the Kern River met Tillie Creek, The Tubatulabal village.

Source: https://www.bakersfield.com/columnists/robert-price/robert-price-160-years-ago-a-culture-defining-atrocity-on-the-kern-river/article_7a4eecf6-dbb5-11ed-9a2d-eb9986e5ccfe.html

Preparing for the threat of massive flooding during California’s “Big Melt,” federal engineers have been releasing more Kern River water from Lake Isabella than is flowing into the reservoir from the snowbound peaks of the southern Sierra Nevada.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-05-17/chevron-prepares-kern-county-oil-fields-for-flooding

The plan, according to agency documents, was to use the wells to pump groundwater into the river bed in dry years, defined as when Kern River runoff is at 50 percent of normal or below.

Source: https://www.bakersfield.com/columnists/lois-henry/lois-henry-kern-river-restoration-wells-pumping-but-not-to-restore-the-river/article_9a7a9612-87fd-11ed-aac2-5773b8de9636.html