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The high temperatures in Death Valley National Park attract tourists from all over the world. Big groups come in shiny luxury buses. Visiting Badwater and Zabriskie Point, the park’s most frequented attractions, you’re likely to run into at least one film crew or fashion shoot from nearby L.A. And the luxury hotel the Inn at Death Valley boasts a forest of whispering palm trees, a lush golf course, a swimming pool, and gourmet seafood entrees in the middle of the hottest place on earth.Barbara D

The Timbisha Shoshone are legally permitted to live in Death Valley National Park. But the vegetation vital to their traditions and livelihoods is dying.

Visitors normally flock to Death Valley National Park to feel the searing heat and take in the barren landscape. This fall, they’ve been drawn by a different natural feature: water.

For decades, the tribe’s annual Pinenut Festival and blessing has been held the third week of September—the month the rabbitbrush turns yellow and it’s time to harvest. But now the weather and the seasons are different, says Andrea Martinez, the chair of the Walker River Paiute Tribe.

Ideally, the mouth of a river should be narrow and deep. But sediment buildup makes the delta in Pyramid Lake too shallow and wide to protect spawning fish from opportunistic predators.