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How I learned to love (or at least not hate) National Leader Standards
September 30, 2005
Chair, Angeles Chapter Outings Management Committee As everyone might know, on July 1 the Outdoor Activities Governance Committee approved a set of leader standards that all current Sierra Club outings leaders are required to meet. These new...
News and Notes
September 30, 2005
Senior Chapter Director wanted The Senior Chapter Director is the top staff management position in the Angeles Chapter. As such, is responsible for advising the Executive Committee and directing the staff in implementing all programs of the Angeles...
Southern Sierran Newport Back Bay concert a huge success for OC True Cost of Food
August 31, 2005
Aug. 7 was a great day for conservation efforts in north Orange County! The newly-formed Orange County Group True Cost of Food Campaign held a fundraiser at the MUTH Interpretive Center in the Newport Back Bay. Photo courtesy Rachel Myers...
ExComm nominees begin campaigns <p><span class=style8>
August 31, 2005
Five candidate forums in September and October will allow Club members to meet and talk with the candidates running for seven at-large seats on the Angeles Chapter Executive Committee. The candidates will outline their interests and ideas and...
Southern Sierran Forge Lodge unanimously voted down
August 31, 2005
The Santa Monica Mountains Task Force and Malibu environmentalists persuaded the Coastal Commission at their Aug. 9 meeting to override a staff recommendation for approval and, instead, vote unanimously to deny approval of the Forge Lodge Hotel...
Southern Sierran Master Plan envisions a developed Griffith Park
August 31, 2005
Imagine Griffith Park with two aerial tramways, six multilevel parking garages, information kiosks, a shuttle bus system, campus-style entrance kiosks, a commercialized bridge over the Los Angeles River, and sports fields and a hotel in the park...
Southern Sierran LNG proposals slowed by falsified statements, community protests
August 31, 2005
Both the Malibu Times and the Ventura County Star reported in August that many of the comments submitted in favor of the proposed BHP Billiton Liquified Natural Gas terminal in Malibu were falsified. Some were submitted on behalf of people who...
Southern Sierran Tour highlights the majestic, endangered Santa Clara River
August 31, 2005
Have you heard about the Santa Clara River, L.A.'s last free-flowing, unchannelized river? How about the huge 21,000 unit Newhall Ranch project that threatens to change the river forever? Do you want to see why American Rivers listed the Santa Clara...
Southern Sierran Talbert Nature Preserve provides a haven for nature in Costa Mesa
August 31, 2005
We are told that even in the city, nature is all around us. Affirmative, but only if we take the time to look. When I relocated for a year to Orange County after 30 years in the Santa Monica mountains, the Santa Ana River trail and Talbert Nature...
Southern Sierran USFS to raise entry fees for National Parks
August 31, 2005
'If it were up to me, the entire forest would be free,' an Angeles National Forest administrator said. 'But we don't live in Wyoming. We live on the edge of a large urban center where 1,000 people at a time take a walk in the woods.' The Sierra...