Dan McCaslin: Reclaim Your Juvenescent Spirit with a Jaunt on North Matilija Creek Trail
Housing and Development Newsletter Photographer-naturalist Chuck Graham’s "Carizzo Plain — Where the Mountains Meet the Grasslands" contains splendid photographs and a thoughtfully succinct text accompanying them. I’ve visited the Carrizo many times. Generally my interest has lain with the incredible pictographs displayed at the vulva-shaped Carrizo rock. As one of our last large natural grasslands, the Carrizo needs additional protection against commercial interests. A third book may seem off topic, but it’s not at all. Michaeleen Doucleff’s riveting "Hunt, Gather, Parent" follows ...