Image set / Tehachapi cloudburst, California

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Title: Tehachapi cloudburst, California
Creator: Lowdermilk, W. C. (Walter Clay), 1888-1974
Date Created and/or Issued: 1932-09-30
Contributing Institution: UC Merced, UC Cooperative Extension Archive
Collection: Madera County, UC Cooperative Extension Records
Rights Information: Copyrighted
Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Rights Holder and Contact: Regents of the University of California
Description: Funding: Digitization funded in part by a National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) Major Initiatives Grant (RM-100281) awarded to the University of California, Merced Library.
Type: image
Form/Genre: study photographs
Identifier: UCCE_MAD_SJER_313058_024
Language: English
eng
Subject: Erosion
Floods
Place: Caliente Creek (creek)
Tehachapi (inhabited place)
Kern (county)
Location: Box 067, Folder 05
Transcription: View of remarkable example of influence of a single tree, its litter and grass cover which resisted ripping effect of streamlets from cloudburst rain. Gullies were cut above, below and on both sides of the plot protected by the trees litter of twigs, leaves, grass cover.

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