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View down into the upper portion of the South Fork of Cuneo Creek. This erod-a-holic sediment source just can't stop eroding. The slide has been growing since it's initiation in 1955. It fully mobilized in 1964, and continues to grow today, to the dismay of the Humboldt County and State Parks Roads Crews.
| From: | mguerro@northcoast.com | (Fri May 30 01:23:21 2003) |
| a dramatic illustration of aggressive forest practice coupled with the results of a major storm event, 1964? | ||
| From: | dunklin@northcoast.com | (Thu Jul 3 12:56:12 2003) |
| Indeed - a worst case example of cumulative effects: logging and road construction in the late 1940s and early 1950s; bad fires in 1955; flood of 1955, all on a geologic fault zone with extremely fractured bedrock. 1955 triggered the slide - 1964 mobilized the materials and made the slide even larger. It continues to grow today, with each wet winter. | ||
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