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Member Training Workshop The Angeles Chapter's Annual Member Training Workshop is coming up on Feb. 11 at the Eaton Canyon Nature Center in Pasadena. If you've taken on new responsibilities in the Chapter and need help learning the job, this is the...

R.J. Secor is hiking again after Mt. Baldy accident Reprinted with permission from the Arroyo View, the newsletter of the Pasadena Group. Mountain climber and author R.J. Secor is famous for his classic guide book, The High...

Senior Regional Representative There's no other place like it in California. Tejon Ranch is 270,000 acres of land owned by one corporation and sitting at the crossroads of the Sierra Nevada, the South Coast mountain ranges, the San Joaquin Valley,...

U.S. Congresswoman In Southern California over the past 75 years, we've developed an elaborate flood control system that has turned many local creeks and rivers into concrete channels. That's allowed the rain from heavy storms to be moved quickly...

A wetland in Long Beach is in danger of being flattened for a pay-for-play sports park. The 60-acre remnant of a riparian corridor, known as Willow Spring, originated well up in the watershed and emptied into the L.A. River. The city of Long Beach...

Vice-chair, Angeles Chapter Conservation Committee and Chair, Ballona Wetlands Restoration Committee We hear lots of talk today about restoring the Los Angeles River, restoring the Ballona Wetlands, restoring Bolsa Chica Wetlands. What does...

Chair, Conservation Management Committee The Angeles Chapter leadership has been fighting valiant struggles on the suburban edges of our megalopolis. Our resources and our volunteers have been working to fight suburban encroachment on our local...

The right appointee is crucial to conserving California's coast The process of insuring good appointments to the California Coastal Commission has never been easy. This year, however, that journey had more ups and downs than a roller coaster. In...

June 15 marked the end of the decade-plus battle over the 121-acre Dana Point Headlands property, when the preliminary injunction against the California Coastal Commission's approval of the Headlands Development and Conservation Plan was denied....

Sometimes people describe disadvantaged neighborhoods as on the 'wrong side of the tracks.' When it comes to some of Southern California's most blighted neighborhoods, the more apt description might be 'too close to the tracks.' Neighborhoods...