The Central Valley: 2049
Depicting the effects of poor land management in the State of California
The Central Valley of California was once a verdant and vast place. Flocks of native animals, shallow lakes, wildflowers, oak savannas, and native people populated its surface. In the eighteenth century and onward, miners, farmers, and cattle herders decimated the land forever. They tore up the land, wiped out the people, plants, and animals, and dammed up the rivers, drying the lakes. Many miles now are wasting away under a hot sun and are lit only by strange industrial farming equipment and packaging facilities. I want to push that feeling of toxic lost land in this series, "The Central Valley: 2049". My personal sadness and horror of what can be done in so little time to such a place of natural beauty depicted.
