Dos Rios

And so in the course of that, they were doing biological surveys to prepare for the reintroduction of the brush rabbit.

Because in an exciting way, we can bring the brush rabbit population from several miles up on the other side of the river to what we're calling Dos Rios, the state park, and reintroduce it.

And during that biological survey, within that newly repaired riparian zone, only three and a half years old, you know what they found? Riparian brush rabbits.

somehow these incredible bunnies had figured out a way to travel 10 miles and across the river to find their new home at Dos Rios.

So to me, that says, never give up hope, always recognize that nature can rebound if we help nature, and this is our moment.

So thank you very much for what you do.

In 2009, State Parks released something called the Central Valley Vision, and it talks about wanting to identify places where folks can go locally to a state park to recreate, to relax, and to explore, and to learn.

Dos Rios, one of California State Parks' newest properties, is one of those places.

As we learned in episode five, Dos Rios is California's largest floodplain restoration project and sits just 15 minutes west of the city of Modesto, right in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley.

Armando and I briefly discussed how the waters that flow through Dos Rios start in a rather well-known landscape.

Los Rios is at the confluence of the Tuolumne River and the San Joaquin River.

The Tuolumne River originates in Yosemite National Park.

For in the words of author Robert McFarlane, what could be more of a verb than a river? Maybe a river transcends categories and is more of a process, a network of relationality in which we're all entangled.

These relationships evaporate and condense, flow and meander, and act as main channels for and tributaries to one another.