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Maddalena Serra Joins Chapter Staff
Please welcome Maddalena Serra to her new post as Conservation Coordinator for the Angeles Chapter.
Serra comes to the Chapter headquarters from Amigos De los Rios, where she spent the last two years focusing on campaigns promoting open space, clean air, and environmental education for young people. She hopes to continue these pursuits at the Angeles Chapter.
Victories for San Pedro Bay
Chair, Harbor Vision Task Force
The Angeles Chapter's Harbor Vision Task Force participated in two historic victories in March and April. One will help clean up stinky trucks and provide for trucking improved jobs. The other will create a $51 million trust fund to help communities endure negative impacts caused by the ports. The two victories are intertwined and are just the beginning of much work ahead.
Settlement Creates $51 Million Trust Fund
Sierra Club Makes History : 240,000 Acres Preserved in Perpetuity
Editor, Southern Sierran
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Photo courtesy TejonPreserve.com Golden Hills Oaks |
On May 8, 2008, the Sierra Club and four other leading environmental organizations announced a historic land conservation agreement with the Tejon Ranch Company.
Parks Are For Backpacks, Not Packing Heat
With the approval of Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne, the National Park Service published a proposed regulation in the Federal Register on April 30 that would allow private citizens who possess concealed weapon permits to carry loaded firearms in National Parks, National Recreation Areas, National Historic Parks, and National Monuments. The new rule, if promulgated, would also apply to National Wildlife Refuges administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service. The Public comment period on the proposal regulation is open through June 30, 2008.
Las Lomas Stopped by LA City Council
The Sierra Club, along with many others, has opposed the Las Lomas project. The development was proposed to be in a Significant Ecological Area that is the major wildlife corridor between the Santa Susanna and San Gabriel Mountains, and in the path of the Rim of the Valley Corridor. It would have been in a Seismic Hazard Zone, with a landslide overlay and also in a Fire Hazard Zone.
Sierra Club Endorsements
Los Angeles County Supervisor, 2nd District
| Mark Ridley-Thomas (SD 26) | South L.A., Westchester, Baldwin Hills, Watts, Crenshaw, Inglewood, Culver City, Florence-Fireston |
State Senate Districts
Ellen Louise Wilts (1925-2008)
Member of Angeles Chapter History Committee
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Photo courtesy Charles Wilts, Ellen & Charles Wilts Collection, Sierra Club-Angeles Chapter Archives Ellen and Charles Wilts on summit of Mount Lyell, Yosemite National Park, August 1947. |
What YOU Can Do To Stop Global Warming
Global warming got you down? Worried about ice caps and glaciers melting, species disappearing, hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes? (Not to mention possible water shortages in southern California.)
If you're like me, you often use the very human mechanism of denial to cope with this fear. Sometimes I simply skip over newspaper articles about the latest bird species annihilation or prediction of coral death. There's a limit to the bad news I can take in one day!
Save Our Safeguards: Help Pass Prop 99 and Defeat Prop 98
By Tim Frank
Sierra Club California Advocate
Sierra Club California's top priority for this June election is to defeat Prop 98 and to help pass Prop 99. The first of these, Prop 98, is a constitutional amendment generated by the same special-interest-funded 'property rights' groups that have been working for years to wipe out environmental protections under the guise of 'eminent domain reform.' (These groups sponsored the environmentally destructive Prop 90 in 2006, which Californians defeated.)
