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DEAD
OAKS HAVE MORE CHARACTER THAN MANY LIVING PEOPLE
How
are they doing a few years after this page was posted?
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Zoe Nathan
PART
ONE: A FAMILY STORY My
point of view writing about oaks and vineyards.
PART TWO: OAK TREES: MAGIC OR WEEDS?
Focuses on California oaks and my life with them. This section
outlines the challenges faced by California oaks today.
PART
THREE: PROTECTING THE OAKS UNDER
CONSTRUCTION-- Photos still up for your
enjoyment.
PART
FOUR: LESSONS IN ECONOMICS
UNDER CONSTRUCTION--
Photos still up for your enjoyment.
PART
FIVE: AFTER THE STORM Are oaks
safe now? UNDER CONSTRUCTION
-- Photos still up for your
enjoyment.
AFTER
THE STORM: Are the Oaks Safe Now?
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Zoe Nathan
I'm updating
this page to include latest developments in the oaks/vineyards
conflict. The short paragraph below presents the situation a few
years ago. Still accurate in many areas.
SN
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Zoe Nathan
REALLY,
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
Since
posting this series, I've gotten agonized e-mail saying, "They're
bulldozing 50 big oak trees down the street. How can I stop them?
Isn't there a state law?" No. Maybe a few local ones. Usually
not. The failure of ordinances which would have protected Santa
Barbara County's oak trees shows just how hard it is to fight
those who would destroy them.
What to
do? One path requires citizens to get better organized politically
and get some laws and ordinances to protect oak trees passed.
Alternatively, we can trust the trees' "stewards",
the landowners who are currently cutting them down, to care for
the land and its leafy occupants. Hopefully, these stewards will
take a long term view which includes an accurate vision what California
will be like in a generation or two, as well as a clear eyed estimate
of exactly how much wine can be profitably marketed.
Which
is the best approach? Beats me.
WILL
ANYTHING HELP?
This is
a philosophical issue. Humanity seems to be the only species which
wantonly destroys its own environment, makes anything and
everything into an addiction, and defiles that which is
most beautiful.
Can anything
help us? That's the real question.
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Zoe Nathan
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