Angeles Chapter Forest Committee Chair
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Photo courtesy Andrew M. Harvey The Forest Committee is expanding its efforts to protect backcountry areas of the Angeles National Forest such as Pleasant View Ridge, pictured above. |
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Photo courtesy Martin Litton Aerial photo illustrates clear cuts where giant sequoia trees stand without a forest around them, due to trees that have been cut and shipped to sawmills for logging. |
Angeles Chapter Conservation Chair
On Feb. 25 about 50 members attended the Angeles Chapter's first-ever all-day conservation retreat at the Community Center in El Monte. The program, 'Tricks of the Trade: A Toolbox for Conservation Activists,' was developed by long-time conservation activists Marcia Hanscom and Lynne Plambeck.
Nineteen Chapter members met March 20 to create a task force that will go beyond opposition to the Griffith Park draft master plan and instead develop a Sierra Club vision for the park. Dean Wallraff, Conservation Committee Chair, conducted the meeting. The group adopted the following mission statement:
, Marcia Hansom, and Susana Reyes
Last spring, Bill Rosendahl, with huge Sierra Club grassroots support, was elected to the Los Angeles City Council. He now represents more than 250,000 residents in the 11th district, the city's largest coastal area including the communities of Brentwood, Del Rey, Mar Vista, Marina del Rey, Pacific Palisades, Palms, Playa del Rey, Playa Vista, Venice, West L.A., and Westchester.
and Jan Kidwell
Baker, Calif., with its fast food restaurants and Route 66-style motels is the last semblance of 'civilization' when you exit I-15 into Mojave National Preserve. Narrow, two-lane Kelbaker Road winds its way south through vast desert lands, where rugged mountain ranges float atop dry lake beds, monstrous bajadas, or giant alluvial fans, touching blue sky on the distant horizon.
Thirty miles down the road, where the bajadas meet, a lone Spanish-style building appears along railroad tracks, very out of place in this mix of cholla and Joshua trees.
Sprawl-Ridden L.A. Cleans Up Its Act - or At Least Acts Like It's Cleaning Up
Undoing poor planning and fixing urban environmental problems is going to cost local taxpayers billions of dollars. Or it could pay for itself.
Get the Scoop on Freeloading Cattle Ranchers in Book on Welfare Ranching
Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West. Ed. George Weurthner and Molli Matteson. Island Press, 2002.
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Bob Wheatley passed away Feb. 6. He was 89 years old.
Wheatley was very active in the Sierra Club, serving as chair of the Rio Hondo Section for several years and helping to found the Lower Peaks Committee. He received Chapter Awards in 1981 and 1988 for Outings Service and in 1992 for Special Service.
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