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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

clhw wrote:

> I can't tell much from the pictures.
> Is it brown and little vegetation or what at Livermore? What state is
> Livermore in? Why do you keep using it as some sort of example?
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A while back I submitted a link to a picture from Livermore, 
California.  It's east of San Francisco, before you get to the Central 
Valley where Sac'to is located.  The hills look bone dry when it's only 
June.  There's nothing for grazing the entire rest of the summer.  
There's miles more exactly like it!

http://www.zigamorph.net/albums/livermore20000711/20000711193300livermore.sized.jpg

To resolve the question is easy.  Are eastern dairy farms usually 
irrigated?  Ours are all irrigated here, in this part of the "Pacific 
Northwest".  That's because there's no forage otherwise after June.

Bill
S. Oregon coast