[TheForge] [OT] bobcat

[peter fels]

Paving over agricultural land that rich..a common pattern in CA, seems profoundly shortsighted.

On Feb 24, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:

> 
> 
> peter fels wrote:
>> I remember looking down on the valley when i was a kid,( including
>> Van Nuys) from Mullhulland and seeing a carpet of orchards all across
>> the valley.
> 
> I remember those - it was all still there even in 1976.  In 97 I went to 
> visit my friends for Thanksgiving and Scott and I went to some state 
> park down that way.  We took the new interstate (forget the number) and 
> I was utterly dumbfounded at what I saw as we traveled south on that 
> road.  Not a grove to be seen anywhere.  Not one - and the red tile 
> roofs seemed to go on past the horizon.  I am not exaggerating when I 
> say that we must have driven past a couple of hundreds of thousands of 
> tightly clumped dwellings.  It was almost stupefying to behold.  The 
> sight actually made me very sad as I so clearly recalled the beautiful 
> groves there.  The sight was to my eyes appalling.
> 
>> Now it's paved and roofed over. Fabulous depth of
>> topsoil..i like to imagine it's down under the asphalt, waiting for
>> folks to go away.
> 
> 	Wishful thinking.  That was all graded off and sold.  Guaranteed.
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