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| A park-like area with natural loop trials throughout. | ||
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| Landscape accented with majestic Valley Oaks. | ||
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| Outcrops of California Serpentine. | ||
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| Dramatic cloudscapes enhance the scenery. | ||
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| Like brush strokes of a master artist. | ||
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| Intrigued by a series of distant rock formations, I hiked into the area to take photos. | ||
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Here
the earth surface buckled and thrust broken slabs of rock upward.
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| Ever-changing cloud patterns drift overhead. | ||
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| Fire once swept over this ridge leaving skeleton trees in its wake. | ||
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| Reservoir below rock formations south of Llagas Ave. | ||
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| Dead oak in foreground is distinctive feature of this high meadow. | ||
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| Future industrial park: corner of Bailey Avenue and Santa Teresa Blvd. | ||
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| Farmland reservoirs provides habitat for birds and other wildlife. | ||
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| Hay cut and left to dry creates an intricate pattern. | ||
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| Reservoir drains via the wavering creek bed on right. | ||
| Future industrial park won't incorporate meandering creek, reservoirs or "mole hill". | ||
| Once
farmland, then a golf course, now farmland once again. What the future holds for Coyote Valley has already been decided. |
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