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Here's a bright spot (literally) in an otherwise gloomy time. The wildflowers are in bloom and it looks like it's going to be a great season! Alison Sheehey, a wildlife expert who lives in the Kern Valley, sent this photo taken yesterday of the hills blossoming with poppies and Fiddlenecks. She says the Kern River Canyons is "blazing" just above the power plant. Closer the Bakersfield, you can see splashes of orange from Panorama Drive to Hart Park, Sheehey says. Last year, we put up an interactive map on bakersfield.com so people could post their wildflower sightings. I'm hoping to get that back up soon so stay tuned. We will also run a map of good wildflower locations in the paper. Check for it sometime next week. In the meantime, please post your sightings here and feel free to send me pics to add to this post at sshepard@bakersfield.com. Here's some other ways to get local wildflower information: Kern County Wildflower Hotline: 322-WILD (Activates March 1)...
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