Comments by myrrddin
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Posted on September 8 at 2:31 p.m.
There are innumerable such places in California. Do not get hung up on the overused Sierra Nevada. Check out the nearby Los Padres Forest which has trails for all abilities, hot springs, and truly wild wildlife. Do not forget the northern Los Padres either. Many treasures lie there. Gaviota State Beach has, on the other side of the freeway from the beach, hot springs and a good loop hike over Gaviota Peak with with world class views that show the curvature of the earth.
Posted on August 31 at 11:16 p.m.
The changes in sea-level are generally much more than twenty feet. Look at the beach terraces on the west end of Sant Cruz Island, they are more like 150 feet.
Posted on August 16 at 6:47 p.m.
He is, at last, resting in peace. We are all the less for his loss, never knowing what all lie within him.
tjh
Posted on August 16 at 6:40 p.m.
Ray;
Mastication is one I will have to put in my dictionary. Please never use "decimate" in place of "devastate." Even my little latin tells me that "decimate" means to kill one-tenth. Unfortunately our modern language is getting masticated. On the map the pass adjacent to Madulce Peak is, as you suggested, named Puerta Suelo. Puerta meaning not only "door", but "beginning of an undertaking."
tjh
Posted on July 30 at 3:58 p.m.
Maps of the fire are available at http://www.inciweb.org/
Posted on July 28 at 1:31 p.m.
These young men have no sense of belonging to the community at large and so form gang communities. Education, ,jobs, housing, dignity, these help build community. Community keeps an eye on its members. Providing a hand up to these young men is certainly less costly than incarcarcerating them.
Posted on July 26 at 12:12 p.m.
How to stop violence? Provide low income housing. Provide top quality educational opportunities through university free to all who are willing to study hard. Provide a business enviroment to foster entry
level jobs with a true future. Report suspicious behavior to the police. This will not stop violence,
but will cool it off. Otherwise all of our mutimillion dollar homes will become become mutimillion dollar bunkers.
Posted on July 19 at 9:55 p.m.
"Wilderness," is just another landscape we manage. Prior management protocols have set the stage for this current drama. From past experience, when the prognosis is for disaster, the result fizzles in comparison. What is "wilderness?" The San Rafael is full of invasive, exotic weeds and insects that can never be removed. We still call it a "Wilderness Area." There are a number of old overgrown "jeep trails" in the San Rafael, a suppossedly "road free" "Wilderness Area." Man has been in the San Rafael for thirteen thousand years or more. Is "wilderness" "a wild place untramelled by man?" If this is so, how do you know what "wilderness" looks like. The first men to trammel this area left no records of what they encountered. This fire is nothing in the larger scheme. It is only turning the page to a new chapter in the mystery of the Ran Rafael.
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Posted on October 24 at 7:30 p.m.
http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/lospadres/
This link will take you to news and updates about the Los Padres. Currently the entire forest is closed.
On Forest Closure to be Reduced