In 2013, I picked up a hitchiker along the north coast of California and drive her all the way to Sacramento.
She was an environmental activist who was in Sac to speak out against Cal-Trans, who was actively working to widen the US 101 and 199 for larger trucks.
I recorded this lady performing a song about the whole endeavor in my small home studio.
It started with the filling of wetlands in Willits, CA to make way for a highway bypass.
Today, they are still working toward this goal, removing old growth redwood from the roadway at Richardson Grove State Park.
The last piece of their plan is to widen the 199 along the Smith River
The singing is awful, but the song is prescient and still unfolding exactly as planned.


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