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the left and followed a steep sandstone path to the their discards at one of the most pristine and
cove and beach. There are no signs and no stairs. beautiful places on earth? Blame the start on the
Plus the descent is treacherous, given the shards earthquake that devastated San Francisco in 1906.
of broken glass and rusty metal poking out the soil, The same mega-trembler also reduced downtown
remnants of decades of dumping. Fort Bragg to rubble. Residents needed to clear to
So why did the good citizens of Fort Bragg dump rebuild. Before the quake, trash was burned, but
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