Reis Valley and Mudville
A blog about California, sustainability, restoration, history, and more
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Reading the Rocks on Reading Peak
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Reading Peak - 8,714' Lassen peak was closed. This season was the 100th anniversary of the mountain's volcanic explosion in 1914, ...
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
The California Grizzly
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There have been many ideas for returning grizzly bears to California. Most of these ideas, such as the Center for Biological Diversity's...
Monday, August 4, 2014
Man Accidentally Tears Online Map
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BREAKING NEWS: Today a 53-year old man in Los Angeles, California, tore Google Maps while trying to unfold it. He had previously worn thin a...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Awash in a Colorful Landscape
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California is a land of extremes, both temporally and spatially. And visually. In much of low-elevation undeveloped California, the landsc...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Bay Leaves and Asparagus
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A couple of days ago I heard on the news that an attempt would be made to control Sudden Oak Death in Big Sur by removing individual "b...
Thursday, May 8, 2014
My Backyard Looks Like Mt. Everest
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I was skimming through a recent California Department of Water Resources publication when I came across a mislabeled photo of the East...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
When Bad Roads are Good Roads
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The first time I drove through Samuel P. Taylor State Park, it was a busy weekend about ten years ago.* The road was narrow and bumpy, and t...
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