Gualala Photos and Maps (click to enlarge)

See also:

http://www.redwood.sierraclub.org/sonoma
http://www.rrraul.org
http://gualalariver.org/vineyards/option3.html
http://www.sonoma-county.org/prmd/timber/index.htm

Bear Ridge 3-31-05 copy.JPG 663.49 KB	Hoover Ridge 3-31-05 (1) copy.JPG 425.08 KB	Oak Ridge 3-31-05 (1) copy.JPG 436.13 KB
Oak Ridge 3-31-05 (12) copy.JPG 382.87 KB	School Ridge 3-31-05 (9) copy.JPG 462.54 KB	Premier copy.JPG 305.37 KB
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Two maps of the plan to convert a 19 thousand acre holding in west Sonoma county arround Annapolis, and photos of the same territory. As you can see the slopes are imposing and in extremely sensitive terrain for the health of the Gualala Watershed. The planned conversions will have to be "cherry picked" off the scarce flat ridgetops, and terraces adjacent to extremely steep slopes down to the watercourses.

If that project gets built, it will be the beginning of the end for any attempt to keep contiguous forests in the West County in one piece (see also the satellite images).

The remoteness and steepness of these slopes is evident from the air. The development pressure on not only these lands but the surrounding communities and forests will be extreme.