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Tim May <timcmay@removethis.got.net> wrote in message news:<210320042206455701%timcmay@removethis.got.net>...
> 
> The "acre" I am clearing is not actually being cleared to the ground
> (except for any poison oak vines seen...they are pulled). What I'm
> doing is having some dead madrones ("silvertips"--great firewood,
> mostly harvested in most forests) and some scraggly bush trees (small
> scrub oaks, hazelnuts) chainsawed out. This should not affect the
> erosion of the soil, which is both well-drained, courtesy of the Aromas
> Sand Formation, and not stripped bare.

Ooh, sand must be nice to have around...you'd think we'd have great
soil here, living in a redwood forest, but there's a good bit of clay
in it so it doesn't drain as well as we'd like.

> (The biggest landslide is the one that has kept Amesti Road closed
> since the heavy rains of 1995: the state has decided that digging out
> the roadbed, which is not covered very deeply, is not worth the
> expenditure of tax dollars on. Better that thousands here in this area
> pay many thousands per year in property taxes so that our money can be
> shipped to South-Central LA to pay for Latandawanda X. Shabazz to have
> a couple more bastard children. Some day we're going to have to kill
> the politicians who stole from us and send millions of niggers up the
> chimneys.)

Oh, foo; we were having such a nice chat about landscaping and then
that darned Mr. Hyde had to show up again. <grin>

Jeannie