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For today's show, we're exploring the Valley's natural resources. Those can include lots of things, like water, historical artifacts, and animal species, but today we're focusing on rocks, minerals and ancient fossils. We’ll tell you how to find neat resources like these in and around the Valley, and how you and your kids can learn more about them. The audio version even features a few bonus geology puns! GOLD IN THE REGION So we’ve had a really wet winter and spring this year. Reservoirs are brimming and rivers are full. All that water is moving a lot of rocks down river. Ezra wondered what all that water was loosening up and carrying down waterways. To find out more Ezra hung out with a few folks who know a lot about the subject, gold prospectors. They went out to the Fresno River near the mountain town of Oakhurst. Meet Larry Riggs. He’s been gold prospecting since he was six, he’s now 69. “That’s a piece of gold, that little speck,” says Riggs. “I’ve had three pans and I’ve found