Posted by Keith in Waswhington on Wednesday, June 06, 2007 at 17:20:30 :
In Reply to: Re: Cutting into an old oil tank posted by David Sherman on Wednesday, June 06, 2007 at 11:10:28 :
I grew up just 3 blocks west of Logan Lumber. My family has been in that area since 1938. My grandfather had a house on the beach. That area has changed a lot in all those years.
What year did you graduate from Highline. I am in the class of 68.
Kellogg looks a lot better than it did years ago. The trees are coming back pretty good as of 2 years ago. They really terranced those hills to stop the erosion. I met with a guy that was trying to work with the reforestation of that area. He could not convince the people to stop planting grass then the trees. If you do that you have a very low success rate as the grass sucks all the water before the seedings get enough (but there were focused on errosion control through planting grass). He based his work on the natural procees that forests went through after fires in that area. He showed me a lot of pictures of reforestation that he had done. He had great success even in the smaller areas around Kellogg that he did. He was one of the few people that you meet in your life who really understood things and acted accordingly. He just hated all the political stuff assoicated with the remediation of the Kellogg Wallace area.
I had a chance to go into the Sunshine mine back in the earlt 70's but declined. I was a geology student at WSU.