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>>>Shasta Gaughen: This is Gregory Canyon. This is what will be filled with trash.
To imagine, from an individuals perspective where they are versus where we are, when you
think of a landfill, people tend to think of them as being off the beaten track and
away from their own communities, but they have to go somewhere. There are alternatives
to a site like this one.
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So all along the base of the mountain here, there's archeological sites. For the most
part they're small habitation processing sites. So it's food processing, acorn processing,
bedrock mortars.
But the mountain itself is a spot of spiritual contemplation. There are sites and areas where
people go for prayer, where they go for healing, and the idea that even if the landfill itself
doesn't encroach upon all of those places, you can smell it, you can hear it and even
from just a mental perspective, knowing that just yards, you know hundreds of feet away,
there is garbage being piled up, that's just not something that can be mitigated as far
as impacts to people's spiritual lives.
You see that power pole up on the side of the hill? On the ridge? The trash will reach
that high. When you come out here you still have an expectation of it being a spot of
sort of natural beauty and lack of development. So if you take essentially what is Takwic's
home or Takwic's church and you pile garbage all along one side of it, this is not something
that will make him happy. So it's something that will definitely be a negative impact
on the people who practice this religion. [footsteps]