Monterey County officials closed a popular lake to visitors Wednesday while they try to determine the cause of a mass fish die-off that county staff first noticed last week.

State and county wildlife experts have not yet figured out why the fish are dying at Lake San Antonio, an inland recreation and camping area that straddles the Monterey and San Luis Obispo County line roughly 30 miles northeast from Hearst Castle.

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Anna Leah comes to Local News Matters from over fifteen years in documentary film – including a docu-series examining the national reach of conspiratorial thinking, never-before-seen materials related to Jeffrey Epstein, and a history of currency. Currently, she is earning a master’s degree in feature writing, investigation, and data at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism (part of CUNY – the City University of New York). She focuses on building empathy with people who are often overlooked or oversimplified. More at annaleah.com.