One of the eeriest forests in the world is located just a mile or two from the center of San Diego. Very few people enter it, though there is one safe, and convenient way to …
January 8, 1987
![Throughout 1983 and 1984 “the kelp curlers would eat off all the blades, so you would see stipes [stalks] with just the floats. Whole areas at the south end of the Point Loma forest were completely denuded.”](https://media.sandiegoreader.com/img/photos/2018/06/13/kelp-cover-ron-mcpeak_t670.png?b3f6a5d7692ccc373d56e40cf708e3fa67d9af9d)
Throughout 1983 and 1984 “the kelp curlers would eat off all the blades, so you would see stipes [stalks] with just the floats. Whole areas at the south end of the Point Loma forest were completely denuded.”
Posted January 8, 1987
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