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    After the fire: erosion and jackasses

    The fire was long over, but the senseless  tree-cutting continued. I was quite upset. I just couldn’t accept that the best thing for a park that had lost thousands of trees, would be to tear out 1000 more trees. Not to mention the growing erosion problem. And I felt like a wimp because I hadn’t crossed the forbidden barriers and gone into the burned areas, scout-like, on my own, to find out exactly what the Forestry Division was doing up there… photo by Martin O. Garcia, taken May 10, 2 days after the fire, on his daily hike. His own caption: “Griffith Park, AFTER.” Griffith Park Master Plan Meeting No…