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<\/p>\nApril ride will be hosted at Pamo Valley in Ramona.<\/p>\n
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Directions –<\/p>\n
East County – Hwy 67 thru Ramona. Turn left on 7th Street.\u00a0 7th Street turns into Elm. Turn right on Haverford, then left on Pamo Rd. Follow Pamo road down the hill and continue til you see the Los Senderos sign on the right.<\/p>\n
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From Julain – Hwy 78 towards Ramona, Turn right on 7th Street.7th Street turns into Elm. Turn right on Haverford, then left on Pamo Rd. Follow Pamo road down the hill and continue til you see the Los Senderos sign on the right.<\/p>\n
THE HISTORY OF PAMO VALLEY:<\/p>\n
Most of the valley bottom of Pamo Valley is owned by the city of San Diego public utilities department\u2019s enterprise water fund, said Pasek, an avid hiker. The city leases the land to Bob Neal, a Ramona rancher, who maintains, patrols and fences the 3,769 acres while grazing cattle.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe city came to own this land in the 1950s as a reservoir site,\u201d Pasek said. \u201cWhile there are no plans to build a reservoir here now, no other good reservoir sites are left in San Diego County.\u201d<\/p>\n
The city holds the land if it ever needs such a reservoir in the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s good, because the land then can\u2019t be sold for development,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n
As a result, Pamo Valley remains relatively pristine as ranch land, which it has been since at least the 1860s.<\/p>\n
Homesteaders started ranching here about then, according to an extensive website that covers the history of Pamo Valley. The Foster family, which maintains the website, pamoranch.com, began dairy and stock ranching here in the early 1900s. The family also formed a water company that considered damming for a reservoir here. Neal had worked for the Foster family on their ranch.<\/p>\n
We bushwhacked our way through tall green grasses, reaching ridges that offered panoramic views of this verdant valley. Wildflowers were in full bloom. Leslie Woollenweber, conservation programs director for the conservancy, identified ivory-colored cream cups, bright yellow tidy tips, yellow\/orange deerweed and ever-present chamise, which she said is highly flammable and helped spread the devastating fire that ravaged this land in 2007.<\/p>\n
In the lower reaches of the valley, near Santa Ysabel Creek, oak woodlands still harbored healthy old oaks that survived that fire. Sycamores and cottonwoods lined the free-flowing creek, where we had to take our shoes off to cross.<\/p>\n
Several gatherings of granite boulders were dotted with morteros and metates. The old acorn grinding holes revealed this area to be a major campsite for the Northern Diegueno Indians who lived here for hundreds of years before the homesteaders.<\/p>\n
The word \u201cPamo\u201d probably comes from the Diegueno word, \u201cpaamuu,\u201d according to \u201cCalifornia Place Names\u201d by Erwin G. Gudde and William Bright. They cite an Indian rancheria called Pamo in Spanish records as early as 1778, and the Valle de Pamo, or Santa Maria, land grant was dated 1843.<\/p>\n
The land here hasn\u2019t changed much since then, it seems. \u201cYou turn down a road here and you\u2019re in old California,\u201d said Charty Bassett, a conservancy board member.<\/p>\n
Priscilla Lister is a freelance writer from San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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