system is in good condition, with access to the troublesome line being improved 

 in 1992. 



i. Ranch Roads 



The Truttman Ranch is serviced by a main driveway which leaves 

 Highway One on a dangerous curve (many accidents, some fatal, have occurred 

 near the ranch entrance; news accounts often refer to it as "Truttman's Curve"). 

 The driveway opens up into a wide dirt yard capable of handling heavy truck 

 traffic. Short roads lead off this yard to the hay barn, water tank and orchard. 

 An abandoned road leaves the ranch complex northwesterly to the flats and 

 deer camp site; it has been overgrown with grass. Three roads split from this 

 one to various areas on the west side of the ranch. All of these roads are 

 abandoned. 



A dirt road leads to the chutes and feeders on the east side of the 

 highway and ends about halfway up the ridge. There are approximately six 

 other undeveloped gate entrances to the pasturage on the approximately two 

 miles of Highway One that pass through the Truttman Ranch. 



j. Trees 



An immense Douglas fir planted by the Truttmans about 1944 grows in 

 the yard between the main house and the site of the small house; it was 

 damaged by the controlled burning of the smaller house in 1993. A number of 

 recent non-native acacia trees are growing on the east side of the dairy. The 

 ranch is studded with large native oaks. 



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