A new nature documentary “San Diego: America’s Wildest City” showcases fascinating wildlife from the ocean to the desert and mountains.
The big picture: San Diego has more biodiversity than any county in America. That means the 3.3 million people who live here are surrounded by more plants, animals, and microorganisms than anyone else in the country.
It is a telling illustration of the precarious state of United States dams that the near-collapse in February 2017 of Oroville Dam, the nation’s tallest, occurred in California, considered one of the nation’s leading states in dam safety management.
The Oroville incident forced the evacuation of nearly 190,000 people and cost the state $1.1 billion in repairs. It took its place as a seminal event in the history of U.S. dam safety, ranking just below the failures in the 1970s of two dams.
