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Title: Waterhed after fire, Santa Monica Mountains
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Ravaged by fire this was once the most valuable watershed in the Santa Monica Mountains. Compare the height of the chaparral to that of the man in the background. 2500 acres of the growth was burned in one night during the Cold Creek-Red Rock Canyon fire of October 1936.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00030362
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 115 4x5
CARL0000032898
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/95752
Subject: Forest fires--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Watersheds--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Chaparral--California--Santa Monica Mountains
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)

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