Tip of the Month

  • Posted on 31 May 2008
  • By The Editor

It is fire season again in Southern California! Many California native plants are not only very beautiful but also fire resistant. Of course eventually everything will burn, so keep your plants at a safe distance from your house and properly trimmed.

A beautiful drought and fire resistant Southern California native bush is the lemonade berry - rhus integrifolia. This is an evergreen shrub that does not grow more than 10 feet, makes a beautiful hedge, has pretty white flowers and then red berries. You can even make lemonade with them! Nothing beats an edible and safe landscape.

Maddalena Serra Joins Chapter Staff

  • Posted on 31 May 2008
  • By Tom Politeo

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

  • Posted on 31 May 2008
  • By Tom Politeo

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

  • Posted on 31 May 2008
  • By Elizabeth Saas

Editor, Southern Sierran

 

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.

Sierra Club Endorsements

  • Posted on 30 April 2008
  • By The Editor

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)

  • Posted on 30 April 2008
  • By John Ripley

Member of Angeles Chapter History Committee

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

  • Posted on 30 April 2008
  • By Kathy Seal

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

  • Posted on 30 April 2008
  • By The Editor

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.)

The Chair's Corner

  • Posted on 30 April 2008
  • By Mike Sappingfield

Chair, 2008 Angeles Chapter Executive Committee

May is the month of thanksgiving - that is, this is the time we give thanks to the thousands of members who do all that they do to make the Angeles Chapter and the Sierra Club function effectively. For example, on May 4th is the Annual Chapter Awards Banquet, in which we acknowledge the superlative efforts of many of our leaders.

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