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The San Gabriel Valley Task Force on their visit to the Vulcan rock quarry on December 4, 2009 Credit: Joan Licari WE RESOLVE to study to gain understanding of complexities so that we can propose beneficial solutions. The San Gabriel...

Buffalo Prairie Dog Let Mike Sappingfield show you the Black Hills he loves. WHAT: Angeles Chapter, Sierra Sage, Sierra Singles. Highlights include Custer State Park, a jeep safari to the buffalo herds, Mt. Rushmore, Crazy...

Santa Clarita Sprawl Credit: Angeles Chapter Archives WE RESOLVE to fight the good fight The Santa Clarita Valley Group looks forward to kicking off 2010 with our usual enthusiasm. We will meet monthly to discuss updates and listen...

Joe McCosker in 1967 Photo Credit: Angeles Chapter Archives Most of us met that zany and incredibly witty couple, Joe and Betty McCosker back in the 1970s, when they were deemed our matriarch and patriarch of the Desert Peaks Section...

From left: L.A. PolComm Co-chair Howard Strauss, Speaker Karen Bass, L.A. PolComm Co-Chair Susana Reyes, and L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas Photo Credit: Jane Simpson On October 25, the 3rd annual Angeles Chapter Political...

Wilderness Travelers enjoying a snow table Photo Credit: Jane Simpson Among the many benefits you get from taking the Angeles Chapter's Wilderness Travel Course (WTC), two things stand out. One is meeting people with similar interests....

Photo by: Stephen Kazlowski On October 22, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced a proposal to designate more than 128 million acres of Alaskan coastline and waters as critical habitat for the polar bear. In May 2008 the...

Ron Young on his 70th birthday, November 3, 2004 Photo Credit: Mary McMannes The three climbing sections of HPS, DPS, and SPS, bid a fond farewell to an all around good and mellow guy, and one who had many quips and one-liners, Ron Young...

BY Carol Henning Co-Chair, Editorial Board The holidays are here, by golly. Disapproval would be folly, might be the 21st century update of the classic Tom Lehrer song about Christmas. Holiday catalogs crowd mail boxes. We have everything you need...

Seven months after the Grand Prix Fire, a Coast Live Oak re-sprouts in Claremont Hills. Photo by: Cliff Mclean All of us who love to spend time in the San Gabriel Mountains were justifiably distressed when 161,000 acres burned in the...