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Join Airport-Marina For the Do's and Don'ts of Mountain Ecotourism on May 18
April 30, 2009
Colette Simonds and the mountains she loves PHOTO Courtesy of OFPRINKITI LA Mountain Ecotourism will be presented by Colette Simonds, a veteran scaler of the Himalayas and the Andes, at the May 18 meeting of the Airport-Marina group of...
Angeles Chapter Conservation Legal Committee and Loyola Law Partner in Environmental Law Training
April 30, 2009
BY DEAN WALLRAFF Vice Chair, Angeles Chapter Conservation Legal Committee The Angeles Chapter Conservation Legal Committee and the Loyola Law School Environmental Law Society held a day-long workshop on environmental law on March 7 for...
Omnibus Bill Adds 2 Wilderness Areas in San Gabriels, 2 Million Acres in U.S.
April 30, 2009
Hikers on Pleasant View Ridge PHOTO BY JUANA TORRES From the San Gabriel Mountains to the Rockies, from the Columbia River gorge to the Monongahela in West Virginia, more than 2 million additional acres of public land in nine states...
Save The Date: Western Wilderness Conference 2010 New Aims, New Allies
April 30, 2009
The conference promises to teach how to better protect the Earth's wild places, like Banning Ranch PHOTO BY TERRY WELSH The Western Wilderness Conference 2010 will take place April 8 - 11, 2010, on the campus of the University of...
Group Spotlight: Inner City Outings
March 31, 2009
A passerby took this photograph of the outing taken by Avalon Continuation School. From left: Gina Awtry (principal of Avalon Continuation School) Rodrigo Hernandez, Eddie Banales, Jesus Heredia, Melody Anderson (ICO leader), and Juan...
ANGELES CHAPTER CONSERVATION LEGAL COMMITTEE VICE CHAIR PREPARES LAW STUDENTS TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PLANET
March 31, 2009
BY DEAN WALLRAFF Vice Chair, Conservation Legal Committee PHOTO BY DAVE BROWN On January 30, 2009, Prof. Dan Selmi trained 19 law students at Loyola Law School in the basics of CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)....
Passages
March 31, 2009
By Shirley Hickman Vicente Baldwin, a long-time and valued leader for Inner City Outings (ICO), died suddenly due to a heart attack in February. He was only 44 years old. Vicente Baldwin Vicente was a giving and positive ICO leader...
A POLCOMM MEMBER REFLECTS ON THE UPCOMING LA CITY ATTY RACE
March 31, 2009
BY EMIL LAWTON Political Committee The two candidates for Los Angeles City Attorney, Jack Weiss and Carmen Trutanich, who received the most votes in the first round on March 3, will face each other in a runoff election on May 19. After evaluating...
COAST REDWOODS STATE NATIONAL PARKS ADVENTURE
March 31, 2009
Redwood Trail PHOTO BY MIKE SAPPINGFIELD Imagine walking through a cool, dense forest, with trees over 3000 years old and rising to heights of 360 feet or higher, with ferns, rhododendrons in bloom, and lush undergrowth in every...
THE URGENT BUSINESS OF SAVING THE PLANET CAN'T BE SCHEDULED FOR BUREAUCRACY'S CONVENIENCE
March 31, 2009
BY PENNY ELIA If you don't live in Laguna Beach you are probably operating under the misconception that this city is green to the core, based on past events like many of us trying to save our Canyon from residential development by taxing...