
~100 yds upstream of Tiny Beach
Bull Run Creek
May 17, 2017
Prior to 2015, someone used a drone to obtain video footage from the meadow. The second (and last flight) flight ended in a redwood tree, but eventually the drone fell out of the tree and was found by Alex. The videos on the SD card were fine :-)
I strung the two resulting clips together and it gives a pretty good sense of the view, and especially the big oak tree at the bottom of the meadow at that point in time. Note the lack of anything else, this was prior to our ownership.
Authors:
Stephen R. Palumbi and Carolyn Sotka
This is a really comprehensive overview of the damage that was wrought on Monterey Bay by waves and waves of commercial exploitation and the almost miraculous recovery of some of that previous wealth. Highly recommend
Author:
Merlin Sheldrake
Amazing book that covers fungi and their many, many roles in the natural world.
Way more comprehensive than you can imagine, but then probably not as comprehensive as it actually is.
Will definitely turn your world upside down.
Author:
William M. Cubery
Hilarious little book, written in 1900 by William Cubery, a well-known California publisher, who came to SF after apprenticing in the Boston publishing industry. Madison Hawes publishing career paralleled this exactly and his obituary mentions that he worked for Cubery after his own ventures failed. They had to have known each other well. Did I say hilarious?
My mother's side of my family has been in Northern California since 1849, with several separate lines of ancestors coming to make it rich off the exploitation of California's resources. While money came and mostly went, they were here to witness the near devastation of many of the resources of this state.
The whole-sale slaughter has mostly stopped and many animals and ecosystems are making a recovery. I will document some of it, and I'll add some little historical vignettes as we go along,
Exploring Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, May 1961, 22 mo old.
(I think this is more like March if not earlier - my mom would have been 7 mo pregnant with my sister in May but in a companion photo of her she is not 7 mo pregnant (maybe 5?)
Henry Cowell became a State park in 1954.
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