Dama Dama Greenfield LbNA #50246 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | The Olde Oak  |
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| Plant date: | Sep 7, 2009 |
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| City: | Ukiah |
| County: | Mendocino |
| State: | California |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | NancyAnne & Doug |
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| Last found: | Sep 19, 2009 |
| Status: | Fr |
| Last edited: | Sep 7, 2009 |
W.R. Hearst purchased some fabulous, non-native European white deer, also known as fallow deer, also known as Dama dama, for the grounds of his central California estate, Hearst Castle, completed in 1919. He gifted some of these deer to Charles Howard, owner of Seabiscuit, who lived a little south of Willits.
In 1972 a group of what one might call back-to-the land hippies went in together and purchased a 5600 acre ranch in the hills between Ukiah and the coast. The land seemed to have been shared, but was informally divided into 40 acre sections. It was and remains sort of a loosely organized intentional community. Many of their ideals were laudable and there was much work on building self-sustaining community with an emphasis on organic living, generosity, purposeful off the grid existence and a strong desire on the part of many to leave behind complex, phony, wasteful, materialistic modern life. I can find very little on the web about Greenfield Ranch where I lived for a couple years in the late’80’s. Here is an interesting retrospective on growing up there:
http://www.ic.org/pnp/cdir/1995/16johnson.php
Meanwhile, on the Howard Ranch the white Dama dama, this non-native deer species, grew into a small herd. And while they do not interbreed with native species, their number seems to have modestly grown. They now range at least as far south as central Mendocino County and can occasionally be seen off Orr Springs Road, near and in Greenfield Ranch. I have most often seen them early in the morning, but you could perhaps see them at any time.
For info. on the Dama dama: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallow_Deer
To find the Dama Dama Greenfield Letterbox park at the entrance to Greenfield Ranch, 9050 Orr Springs Road. Non-residents are not encouraged to hang out, but as long as you stay on the path no one will mind the short walk you will take to find the letterbox. At this date you can park just inside the gate. I understand a locked gate is coming. So when that happens park outside and walk in. Walk down the main ranch road. Don’t listen to windsong. Blind curves aren’t all bad. From there walk about 43 steps. Eyeball the collection of huge bay trees to the right. Walk from the spot where the 43 steps took you straight toward the center of the bays. When almost there head for the first tree on the left. Leaning against it is a large mossy boulder. Under that boulder on its west side in a cavern behind some smaller obscuring rocks should be the Dama Dama Greenfield Letterbox.
Thanks for coming and please hide securely.
In 1972 a group of what one might call back-to-the land hippies went in together and purchased a 5600 acre ranch in the hills between Ukiah and the coast. The land seemed to have been shared, but was informally divided into 40 acre sections. It was and remains sort of a loosely organized intentional community. Many of their ideals were laudable and there was much work on building self-sustaining community with an emphasis on organic living, generosity, purposeful off the grid existence and a strong desire on the part of many to leave behind complex, phony, wasteful, materialistic modern life. I can find very little on the web about Greenfield Ranch where I lived for a couple years in the late’80’s. Here is an interesting retrospective on growing up there:
http://www.ic.org/pnp/cdir/1995/16johnson.php
Meanwhile, on the Howard Ranch the white Dama dama, this non-native deer species, grew into a small herd. And while they do not interbreed with native species, their number seems to have modestly grown. They now range at least as far south as central Mendocino County and can occasionally be seen off Orr Springs Road, near and in Greenfield Ranch. I have most often seen them early in the morning, but you could perhaps see them at any time.
For info. on the Dama dama: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallow_Deer
To find the Dama Dama Greenfield Letterbox park at the entrance to Greenfield Ranch, 9050 Orr Springs Road. Non-residents are not encouraged to hang out, but as long as you stay on the path no one will mind the short walk you will take to find the letterbox. At this date you can park just inside the gate. I understand a locked gate is coming. So when that happens park outside and walk in. Walk down the main ranch road. Don’t listen to windsong. Blind curves aren’t all bad. From there walk about 43 steps. Eyeball the collection of huge bay trees to the right. Walk from the spot where the 43 steps took you straight toward the center of the bays. When almost there head for the first tree on the left. Leaning against it is a large mossy boulder. Under that boulder on its west side in a cavern behind some smaller obscuring rocks should be the Dama Dama Greenfield Letterbox.
Thanks for coming and please hide securely.