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Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)

Don Barrett (aka DBs travels) club

Posted: 27 Apr 2014

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Bakersfield energy history (1741)

Bakersfield energy history (1741)
Energy history in Bakersfield. The collapsed structure to the right of the center of the picture is a generating facility that is being demolished, barely visible in front of it (in the center of the collapsed building) is an oil well -- all surrounded by towers for the electricity grid.

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 Clint
Clint
It would be interesting to see what the Central Valley was like before, say, 1850. Is there any piece of it left? Does the Carrizo Plain count?
9 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Clint
There's a range of hills that have kept the Carrizo Plain separate from the largest part of the Central Valley. There's large segments of the foothills on both sides of the valley that are relatively undisturbed, but I don't think there's any way to see what the actual valley looked like before large scale aqueducts and damming. It's a basin for many rivers that drain (eventually) into SF Bay and thus once was grasslands/savanna/marsh. Its been channeled, farmed, and otherwise managed for so long that the contours have largely disappeared, though I think the northern portion (above Sacramento) is a little closer to original in appearance.
9 years ago. Edited 9 years ago.

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