green day....

the hydromulch scam....
it seems I can't look down at the ground without seeing some bright artificial green color..it seems I can't look at the hills without seeing the same...horticulturists are spreading hydromulch everywhere, to stabilize soil..the thinking is native plants now can't compete with the native seeds after a rain, so they apply hydromulch to stabilize the soil until the chaparral natives can grow again..
that's right, now it's native vs native!!
After the fires, the county sprayed the fire areas with hydromulch, a mixture of wood...paper and some other gluey green goo slurry..they'd load up planes and send them off to drop the load in strategic locations where the slope wasn't more that 60%......the mulch is supposed to prevent erosion..and it's flourescent green..oh, and a while aback, the County Parks Director used mulch with PLASTIC bits in it..sprayed that shit all over the hills..if it was a windy day and you were riding your bike in the hills, you probably took a few gulps of the stuff...
now, this whole project sounds so nutty to me, expensive too at around 5 million dollars...the biggest issue is hydromulching is designed for small landscaping projects...do what you want in you own little garden, but leave the hills to regenerate on their own....the chaparral needs native weeds and non-native weeds that Nature provides...if people would stop restoring these wild landscapes, we wouldn't have so many erosion problems. but we keep fucking with the soil!!
...another odd county idea was to put a little cabin or two at Lookout Park in Summerland to rent to vacationers..the County held an open house last month and got an earful from Summerlanders...most were against the idea so the cabins were nixed...
it's Wednesday and Sheriff Brown still hasn't called me about Lanny Ebenstein's pot houses...girls, what are you supposed to do when a guy you really want to call you doesn't call you?