PHOTO REFLECTIONS
Trimming crews (Photo – Reg Green)
Tree trimming crews turned out over the weekend to cut through tough underbrush that has grown so thickly in the San Gabriel mountains.
By Reg Green
SoCal Edison maintenance crews have to fight their way through the thick vegetation to service the electricity towers that bring power from wind farms in the Tehachapi mountains to Greater Los Angeles.
Thick brush blocking the trail (Photo – Reg Green)
In some cases in these remote mountains helicopters have to fly workers in. All this is in vast areas that were so devastated by the Station Fire of 2009 that scarcely a bush was left standing in deserts of ash and of the wildlife only the ants survived. Now the undergrowth is thicker than ever like that almost blocking the trail.
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