Folsom Dam is a complex machine providing flood protection for Sacramento and regulating water flows for competing municipal, industrial, agricultural, recreational and wildlife needs.

 Dole Food Co. Inc. has moved its nutrition research to Kannapolis from California.

 Mason Arnold has been a champion of the environment since he graduated from college and started EarthAction Lawn & Landscape, an environmentally responsible landscaping company that remains successful today.

 Fourth-generation rancher Nita Vail has worked for more than 10 years to bridge a historically contentious divide between rural landowners and environmentalists in an effort to protect the state?s ranchlands.