Location: Really deep in the heart of South California Gender:
Posted:
Oct 9, 2025 - 3:15pm
black321 wrote:
Honestly, an issue with that and maybe other states...but you seem to be complaining about a few broken fingernails in attempts by a state to protect resources, while the federal government is literally breaking the backs of people it doesn't agree with.
Redirect?
I've lived in this State since my beginning.
And I think I can state a fact that this State is run by a bunch of elitist nincompoops.
It's more of a compound fracture than a few broken fingernails.
This picture I took... if you enlarge it by a few hundreds of thousands... this is the state of this State.
The point being... The Whitewater River (Wash) is the natural drain for this Coachella Valley. Flowing all the way from Whitewater Canyon (the base of Mt. San Gorgonio) to the Salton Sea. Easily over 60 miles.
It's been channelized (streamlined) for years to make for a "better" flow/ less erosion. In fact, towns/ cities that envelope said wash are encouraged to grass and maintain their areas.
Hence the golf courses in the cities from Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, La Quinta and Indio do just that.
That one little area where it's "natural" is kinda of a joke. Setting next to a golf driving range. And the sign indicating "DO NOT ENTER" seems absurd.
And all the dozer tracks immediately next to the "preserve"... the whole thing seems to be an oxymoron.
The Coachella Water District is in charge of the entire wash. They will clear brush and debris with the bulldozers/ earth movers as they need to. Hardly a wildlife preserve.
And California politics has lost their way.
This is an excellent example of that.
Honestly, an issue with that and maybe other states...but you seem to be complaining about a few broken fingernails in attempts by a state to protect resources, while the federal government is literally breaking the backs of people it doesn't agree with.
Redirect?
The point being... The Whitewater River (Wash) is the natural drain for this Coachella Valley. Flowing all the way from Whitewater Canyon (the base of Mt. San Gorgonio) to the Salton Sea. Easily over 60 miles.
It's been channelized (streamlined) for years to make for a "better" flow/ less erosion. In fact, towns/ cities that envelope said wash are encouraged to grass and maintain their areas.
Hence the golf courses in the cities from Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, La Quinta and Indio do just that.
That one little area where it's "natural" is kinda of a joke. Setting next to a golf driving range. And the sign indicating "DO NOT ENTER" seems absurd.
And all the dozer tracks immediately next to the "preserve"... the whole thing seems to be an oxymoron.
The Coachella Water District is in charge of the entire wash. They will clear brush and debris with the bulldozers/ earth movers as they need to. Hardly a wildlife preserve.
And California politics has lost their way.
This is an excellent example of that.
Fair enough. There are ways to maximise the value of narrow strips like that; bulldozers probably aren't one of them but are cheap.
We have interesting situations around where I live where they want to keep vegetation strips along roadways, including large eucalyptus trees. On the positive side, they are interconnected preserves for native plants, especially in areas that have been cleared for pasture, but they then encourage animals to hang out near roads where they can get squished. And they can be a real hazard for cars since eucalypts have a tendency to drop limbs without warning or even fall over. A person at my company nearly got squashed.
Location: Really deep in the heart of South California Gender:
Posted:
Oct 7, 2025 - 9:06pm
haresfur wrote:
Not sure I understand your point. Is that an area being revegitated to to prevent the runoff of pollution? If so it seems like a good thing. If it is an area where someone bulldozed over an environmentally sensitive area, then that seems like a bad thing.
The point being... The Whitewater River (Wash) is the natural drain for this Coachella Valley. Flowing all the way from Whitewater Canyon (the base of Mt. San Gorgonio) to the Salton Sea. Easily over 60 miles.
It's been channelized (streamlined) for years to make for a "better" flow/ less erosion. In fact, towns/ cities that envelope said wash are encouraged to grass and maintain their areas.
Hence the golf courses in the cities from Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, La Quinta and Indio do just that.
That one little area where it's "natural" is kinda of a joke. Setting next to a golf driving range. And the sign indicating "DO NOT ENTER" seems absurd.
And all the dozer tracks immediately next to the "preserve"... the whole thing seems to be an oxymoron.
The Coachella Water District is in charge of the entire wash. They will clear brush and debris with the bulldozers/ earth movers as they need to. Hardly a wildlife preserve.
And California politics has lost their way.
This is an excellent example of that.
Not sure I understand your point. Is that an area being revegitated to to prevent the runoff of pollution? If so it seems like a good thing. If it is an area where someone bulldozed over an environmentally sensitive area, then that seems like a bad thing.
Well since you needed to ask, it reflects the recent and current state of California's primary educational system, in two ways.
One is the illiterate graduates who cannot read and the other is the ones who can read but don't care.
In between jobs. So I went for a long bike ride this morning. And came across this.
Those are golfers doing their driving range thing over there on the other side.
In the foreground are dozer tracks. In the bottom of the Whitewater Wash that occasionally floods draining the Coachella Valley to the Salton Sea.
Only in California....................
Not sure I understand your point. Is that an area being revegitated to to prevent the runoff of pollution? If so it seems like a good thing. If it is an area where someone bulldozed over an environmentally sensitive area, then that seems like a bad thing.
Yep. And to think that the state welcomes anyone from anywhere, legal or not, they won't let you bring in fruits and vegetables from anywhere else across the state line ...
Location: Really deep in the heart of South California Gender:
Posted:
Oct 7, 2025 - 11:07am
In between jobs. So I went for a long bike ride this morning. And came across this.
Those are golfers doing their driving range thing over there on the other side.
In the foreground are dozer tracks. In the bottom of the Whitewater Wash that occasionally floods draining the Coachella Valley to the Salton Sea.
Only in California....................
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