Originally Posted By Andy
>It sounds like you're hiking in an area where there's a lot of agriculture?

Lori,

Ohio is (or was) the third-most industrialized state in the nation; and whatever is left over is farmland. Small farms, family farms, mega-farms. My family (grandparents, now uncle and cousins) run a small dairy farm with about 400 cattle (nothing to brag about out west, but it's a moderately-sized farm here).

I live at the highest point in the state - all of 1,500 feet. So walk 2 miles out my front door and everything is flat, and in the watershed, one direction or another.


Wow, okay. Hadn't been there before, and really wasn't aware. Guess I'm spoiled living in California and being able to leave the cultivated stuff behind in a couple of hours of driving.

I'd like to hear about anything you turn up. I think I'd just get a string of pack goats to lug the water.
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