Monday, March 07, 2011
Kirsten's last day
I am miserable with allergies. Kirsten took the car up into the Catalinas for a camping experience. Kit went bike riding this morning. This afternoon we went on a small hike in the national park to see the lime kilns. Easy trail. What I was up to. During years of operation the kilns require a Lot of firewood so many many mesquite trees were burned. They closed in the 20s because of loss of cattle fodder. It was later they discovered this burn led to decline in saguaros. Young saguaros need nurse trees to survive.