The news of the Sierra Club across LA and Orange Counties!
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Maddalena Serra Joins Chapter Staff
May 31, 2008
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,...
Parks Are For Backpacks, Not Packing Heat
May 31, 2008
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...
Victories for San Pedro Bay
May 31, 2008
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...
Tip of the Month
May 31, 2008
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...
Turn the Economic Stimulus into an Environmental Stimulus
April 30, 2008
Sr. Chapter Director As the Sierra Club Angeles Chapter strives to keep environmental issues in the forefront of our local and national elected officials, we have all been shocked and frustrated by obstructions from the Bush Administration. But...
Ellen Louise Wilts (1925-2008)
April 30, 2008
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....
Sierra Club Endorsements
April 30, 2008
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 Carol Liu (SD 21) Burbank, Glendale,...
Las Lomas Stopped by LA City Council
April 30, 2008
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...
Newcomer/Member Information Night
April 30, 2008
WHEN: May 5 WHAT: Newcomer/Member Information Night HOW: Come and discover the Sierra Club with the Orange County Group, Sierra Sage, OC and LA Sierra Singles, Natural Science, Hundred Peak Section, Wilderness Travel Course and many other...
Save Our Safeguards: Help Pass Prop 99 and Defeat Prop 98
April 30, 2008
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-...