I was the Assistant Forest Manager at Mountain Home State Forest in the early 1980’s.
Mountain Home Demonstration State Forest is a 4,800 acre tract of forest land in Tulare County managed by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The State Forest lies within the Tule River watershed some 22 air miles northeast of Porterville. Elevations range from 4,500 feet to 7,500 feet. Vegetation on the forest is dominated by a mixed-conifer forest with over 5,000 individual old-growth giant sequoia trees.
For more information on MHSF read Management of Giant Sequoia on Mountain Home Demonstration State Forest written by forest manager, David Dulitz.
Here’s a picture of a kid standing in one of the area’s so-called “Indian Bathtubs.”
For more on these rock basins read Rock Basins in Mt. Home State Forest and Immediate Vicinity.
That ‘kid’ looks like he’s enjoying himself! Who wouldn’t in those surroundings?
K
It rarely gets better.
MHSF is surrounded by the Giant Sequoia National Monument but it isn’t until people reach Mt Home, a forest that has had continuous timber harvesting for over a century, that people think they’re in the (no logging allowed) monument area.
When might we see another Postcard from K, K?
I’m in the thinking process. That could take a while!
K