[Homestead] Southern California fires

Lynda lurine at softcom.net
Sat Oct 27 23:57:16 EDT 2007


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky at bellsouth.net>
>
> That looks like most of the rivers and waterways around here.  Good
> canoeing landscape, but how far away from the creek do the trees extend?
>
***Depends.  They use to go quite a ways from the creeks but the land is 
rich and the corporate farms have infringed on the forests in a lot of the 
areas and now all remains is a relatively narrow strips.
>
> Cool.  I would not have guessed that that was in No Cal.  It reminds me
> of coastal GA, FL, or the Carolinas.

***One of the kidlets' favorite places to go.  We lived about 12 miles from 
it before we moved.  The local bird count around there numbers somewhere 
around 400+ and during spring and fall it is amazing.

Lynda 




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