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KERN COUNTY, Calif. — Gwyny Pett has been visiting the Kern River for decades, camping there as a girl and then taking her own children, now grown, to splash in shallows so calm they felt like a private pool. She has seen it in dry cycles like last year, when the river was difficult to explore not because of surging water, but because she turned her ankles on the exposed pebbles. She has also seen the destructive power of the river during high-water years. And although Pett, 66, recently looked ....