DIRECTIONS:
From 101 Freeway: Exit Reseda Blvd go North to Victory, then make right turn onto Victory Blvd. You may park on street or in the parking lots in front of the pool area or tennis courts.

MONTHLY MEETING:
TUESDAY APRIL 21, 2009
"Mountain Ecotourism" presented by Colette Simonds. During the past 10 years, Ms. Simonds,
a Geography instructor at El Camino College, has traveled to several mountain regions of
the world with companies that stress a strong ecotourism doctrine. Come to our meeting
and learn exactly what "ecotourism" is and whether a Westerner can really practice the
sound ecotourism being promoted by these companies.

MONTHLY MEETING:
TUESDAY MAY 19,2009
Program and Speaker:
Monthly meeting: Jim Stewart, Ph.D., Co-Chair, Angeles Chapter
Air Quality, Global Warming & Energy Committee will present
"California - a Model for the Nation on Fighting Global Warming".
Come and learn about the challenge of global warming and California's
Global Warming Law (AB 32). Understand how we can help improve
the implementation of AB 32 so it can better help our communities, state,
nation and the world.
There will be socializing and refreshments.
7:00pm Reseda Park Rec. Hall, 18411 Victory Blvd.

MONTHLY MEETING:
TUESDAY JUNE 16 ,2009
Program and Speaker:
ANNUAL SPAGHETTI DINNER
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE PRINCE OF PEACE CHURCH
More info to follow.
Join us as we welcome Dr. Ken Murray, USC Professor, Wilderness Ranger and long time Sierra
Club member for a very special slide show "Secret Places in the Sierras".
Come and see the special places in our beloved mountains that few people
know about, are often undocumented, and that have special features and
opportunities for solitude and experiencing wilderness. This talk is
dedicated to the memory of Gary Embrey an elected member of the Angeles
Chapter ExComm. and the first Chair of the Outings Management Comm.
who died after a climbing accident in 2006. Join us for dinner and for this
very inspirational program. Attendance is limited so order your tickets
early. Send $15 (SFVG-Sierra Club), sase & phone to Sierra Club, P.O. Box 370485, Reseda, CA 91337.

MONTHLY MEETING:
TUESDAY JULY 21,2009
Program and Speaker:
Monthly meeting: Michael Patris, President and founder of the Mount Lowe Preservation Society, Inc.
will present "Mount Lowe Incline Railway and the life of Thaddeus Lowe".
Opened with great fanfare on July 4, 1893, the Mount Lowe Incline Railway was hailed as "Earths
Grandest Mountain Ride". Located in the mountains above Altadena and Pasadena it operated for 43 years
and served nearly 4 million passengers. Who was Thaddeus Lowe and how did he get from being a
Civil War balloonist to the builder of an incline railway? There will be socializing and refreshments.
7:00pm Reseda Park Rec. Hall 18411 Victory Blvd.

MONTHLY MEETING:
TUESDAY AUGUST 18,2009
Program and Speaker:
Monthly meeting. Darrell Clarke, Sierra Club, Angeles Chapter Chair,Transportation
Committee Co-chair and Air Quality, Global Warming & Energy Committee Co-Chair will
present a slide show entitled "Public Transportation and You". Come and see what
new transit projects have been funded and when they'll be built, including L.A. County
Measure R, California High Speed Rail Proposition 1A and the federal stimulus
package. Learn how transit can be useful to you and how it fits into a clean energy future.
There will be socializing and refreshments. 7:00pm Reseda Park Rec. Hall 18411 Victory Blvd.

MONTHLY MEETING:
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15,2009
Robert Glenn Ketchum, one of the preeminent nature photographer's working today
will present a slide show entitled "Alaskan Salmon: Still Doing the Wild Thing".
Audubon Magazine has named him one of the 100 people who shaped the environmental
movement of the 20thCentury. In 2001 the North American Nature Photographer's Association
named him Photographer of the Year.

Come and learn about conservation photography and his work in the Tongass Rainforest
as well as his decade long project to protect the Salmon Fishery of Bristol Bay.
His books will be available for sale. There will be socializing and refreshments.
7:00PM Reseda Park Rec. Hall 18411 Victory Blvd.

MONTHLY MEETING:
TUESDAY OCTOBER 20,2009
Ted Bennett, a Sierra Club member and an Anthropologist will present a slide show entitled
"Ancient Art Galleries of Stone-Age America". From western Canada to Mexico there
are numerous rocky canyons where stone-age man lived, gathered food and hunted.
These people utilized the canyon walls to make depictions of themselves, the animals
they hunted, their shamans, their weapons and innumerable other cryptic motifs and pictures.
Come and see this artwork that gives us a view into the lives of these ancient peoples of our continent.
There will be socializing and refreshments.
7:00PM Reseda Park Rec. Hall 18411 Victory Blvd.