The Angeles Chapter leads thousands of hikes and outings every year, many of them in your neighborhood. Paseos de Sierra Club is a new hike series that’s good for families and bilingual Angelenos who want to explore wildlands near L.A.’s urban core. To find walks and hikes near you, check out our calendar at angsc.org/activities.
Urban hikes, who knew?
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| Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Orange County is one of the sites where you'll have to pay a fee to enter in 2018. Credit: Wolfgang Sauber/Wikimedia Commons |
Planning your winter hikes and trips?
Check out the December Schedule of Activities for outings, day trips, events and more.
Sierra Club California recently eleased its 2017 Report Card on the performance of California legislators on environmental issues.
Of the 80 Assembly members, only 13 earned 100% scores, and of the 40 senators, 10 earned 100% scores. More importantly, of the 13 assembly 100-percenters, 5 were members of the legislative class elected for the first time in 2016, and 3 of those replaced poor or mediocre past performers on the score card.
Looking for a good winter getaway? We've got four trips heading to some of California's most iconic snowy spots. Sign up soon as trips do fill up; follow the links below for more information.
A California appeals court last week confirmed most of a 2014 decision that the San Diego Assn. of Governments, or SANDAG, failed to reduce climate pollution and assess public health risks of a transportation plan that invests heavily in freeways and subsidizes sprawl at the expense of public transit.
The Schedule of Activities for November 2017 to February 2018 is here. Download a copy and keep it on your desktop ...
Vieve Metcalfe, a resident of La Crescenta for the past 25 years and former Angeles Chapter treasurer, has died. She was 82 years old.
Vieve's volunteer activities included many years as a National Ski Patrol member. She was very active in the Sierra Club and served as treasurer of the club’s Angeles Chapter. More recently she volunteered at the Southern California Genealogical Society as a director and as co-chair of the Library Operations Committee.
Christmas started at Costco after Labor Day. By now, merrymakers have officially bought gifts and all kinds of other items to decorate their homes for the holidays. Now imagine there are no landfills and no recycling centers. What if you had to keep your trash and recyclables in your own yard? What kinds of things would you buy -- and what wouldn't you buy?
Sierra Club Leader Bill Vanderberg and his student volunteers from the Club's Building Bridges to the Outdoors received the Youth Volunteer Group of the Year from Yosemite National Park in October. The awards are given to outstanding volunteers for exemplary service in the park. Vanderberg's group served in a work party to improve park trails and facilities. How does he connect the Club with kids? Here's an interview with Vanderberg that first appeared in the October 2017 issue of the Central Group Newsletter.
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