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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...

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. In the early 1970s, I...

Interim Editor, Southern Sierran It can be very distressing to find an orphaned or injured animal. Though your first instinct may be to help, in some cases it might be best to leave the animal alone until professional help arrives. Does...

James C. Lesperance, former longtime leader in the Angeles Chapter Basic Mountaineering Course, died Jan. 20 following an extended battle with cancer. Born in Chicago, Ill., Lesperance graduated from the University of Illinois and CSU Los Angeles....

The Angeles Chapter Political Committee under the direction of Chair Susana Reyes has been hard at work. Teams have been preparing questionnaires, interviewing candidates, and presenting information to the Political Committee and the Executive...

Interim Editor, Southern Sierran In September 2005, biologists from the U.S. Geological Survey found 11 endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs in City Creek in San Bernardino County. The species had disappeared from the area more than two...

Conservation Program Coordinator As nature lovers, we like to enjoy our fruit trees, vegetable gardens, outdoor plants, ornamental ponds, compost piles and bird feeders. Local wildlife also appreciate these attractions, and this can sometimes lead...

Photographers and flower enthusiasts are watching this year's wildflower season with the intensity of Wall Street speculators. Will ongoing drought doom us to months of brown hillsides, or will late rains make for a March miracle? Last year, ample...

ExComm Meets The Angeles Chapter Executive Committee will meet Sunday, April 23 at 1pm in the Chapter office. All members are invited to attend. Photo Competition Publishing company looking for a color photograph for the cover of the new edition of...

New Books and DVDs Available for Checkout to Angeles Chapter Members Former Sierra Club executive director Michael McCloskey heads the library's list of new authors. In The Thick of It: My Life in the Sierra Club is the autobiography of...