Second-Growth Oak Woodland Photo Study

Today while house-sitting a friend's home on a large acreage lot in the Adelaida area west of Paso Robles I took a walk with my dog and along the way captured these images in a second-growth oak woodland which features several species of oak as well as some rather large poison oak and manzanita bushes and trees . This silvan habitat was a century or so ago clear-cut to be used in the Klau-Buena Vista Mine complex several miles away. It has since come roaring back and is quite beautiful as one can see in the following images.

All photos by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved)