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Contents

Theme: Parks with a Past

A Brief History of Bay Area Parks and Open Space
   Pt. 1, 1840s-1950s


A Conservation Timeline
   Pt. 1, 1840s-1950s


Up and Down the Peninsula and South Bay

Names on the Land
   Pt. 1, San Mateo County



Other Features

Sudden Oak Death

Oak Mortality Syndrome

Grazing Through Huckleberry Heaven

Old-Fashioned Huckleberry Muffins


Wild Lit

Note from the Literary Editor

Blacksmith Fork and Fox - Megan E. Hansen

Down Harkins Fire Road (El Mar de la Purissima - Greg Dunn


Departments

From the Editor

Park News

Trail Center Notes

Upcoming Events

The Trail Companion

Fall 2000

Wild Lit

Blacksmith Fork and Fox

Megan E. Hansen

Blacksmith Fork

I find fish for you,
like a dowser, and the line and your
hand feel the fish choose the fly.
Browns, Rainbows and the Cutthroat.
The last fish like you,
native, beautiful . . . . rare.
You hold them in your palm and free
the hook,
watch them shimmer red back into the water.




Fox

I think I saw you when the sun went down,
dancing through the sagebrush and mesquite.
You held your arms out, but not to me,
and I watched you spin in the moonlight with the stars.


      Megan E. Hansen is a poet and dreamer newly wed and newly transplanted from Ogden, Utah. She and her husband Brian make their home in Palo Alto, California.

Blacksmith Fork and Fox - Megan E. Hansen
Down Harkins Fire Road (El Mar de la Purissima) - Greg Dunn


     
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