Controlled Burn
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With this photo, I am unofficially declaring this week as San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park Nature Trail Week or SFHPSPNTW. My family and I went on a trail hike yesterday and found a great place to get away from the traffic and into a green landscape.
The park is huge and has a few miles of hiking-only trails at the southern end where we decided to go. This is a good thing because mountain bikes are everywhere around here, in spite of us having no mountains. I’m not complaining, though. When I used to ride, one of the best places to go was right here in San Felasco. There are miles of multi-use trails at the northern end of the park.
This image captures the decaying remnants of a fallen pine tree that shows signs of a controlled burn at some point. Looking around, you would never know it, but it must have been a while ago. I don’t know the schedule of controlled burns around here, but I can say that I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near that place when they do it. I never could understand how they manage to keep those fires controlled.
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October 20th, 2008
Cool shot. I like the perspective. Plus, it’s neat to see the undamaged wood slowly revealing itself, probably as rain and critters clean away the burned areas.
And, while I’m writing this, I just heard on the radio that “hammock” is the word of the day…
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October 26th, 2008
I have just one thing to say about this one, Pete.
Uh, dude, having lived in the land of acronyms, I can tell you that you MUST come up with a different one.
That’s all.
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