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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (187259)	11/21/2009 7:13:04 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

Yeah.......irrigation ditches. We have lots of those too. The Army Corp of Engineers came through a close by valley years ago and redirected a river called Samammish. They dug it out and made it straight as an arrow so local farmers could irrigate their crops. An old timer told me that valley used to be covered with huge Douglas Fir, Red Cedar and Hemlock dense forests. He said there was an animal trail the Indians used and lots of the local folks used it too. They'd travel on that trail to get from place to place and for going fishing and hunting. Gradually farmers cut the trees and grew lots of different crops.........mostly berries. They haven't dredged the Slough in years and years and I don't think anyone takes water for farming from it any more, although the land in that valley is now off limits to building unless you get some kind of permission from the county and then it has to be for farming or some other agricultural or animal husbandry type purpose. That's fine by me. The people miles away in the lower valley ruined it by putting up those concrete slab warehouses and ugly apartment buildings. The folks in my town had the foresight to stop that activity dead in its tracks.