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State attorney general to speak on forest protection
April 30, 2005
California attorney general Bill Lockyer will be the featured speaker at a community meeting being held at 7:30pm on Tuesday, May 17, at the Eaton Canyon Nature Center in Pasadena. His talk will be entitled 'Protecting Our Forests for a Generation...
Muir Dawson
April 30, 2005
Chair, Angeles Chapter History Committee Grand old Nature She made them pure Both the Pine And little Muir (Dick Jones poem, from Glen Dawson journal, 1930) With the passing of Muir Dawson at age 83 on Feb. 21, the Angeles Chapter has lost...
San Gabriel River tour shows leaders river area's potential
April 30, 2005
On April 2, Angeles Chapter staff and volunteers from the San Gabriel River Campaign gave a tour of the campaign's newest project proposal: the Emerald Necklace. The Emerald Necklace is a network of urban parks (green jewels) connected by trails (...
Aliso campaign victorious- wilderness golf plans halted
April 30, 2005
Views of Aliso Canyon, the Pacific Ocean, and Catalina Island can be enjoyed from Aliso Wood Canyons Wilderness Park near Laguna Beach. A luxury resort's bid to extend an adjacent golf course into this publicly owned park was thwarted in part...
What have you done for Planet Earth lately?
April 30, 2005
Dee packs it out for the Chapter. Once a month Dee Shaddock comes into the Chapter office and collects material the building doesn't recycle. That's mostly overruns of the Southern Sierran and whatever bottles, cans, and cardboard that...
The voracious cycle of growth must change
April 30, 2005
For a long time, we in the Sierra Club have been active in promoting conservation of natural resources and the preservation of natural open space, with what some may regard as considerable success. Of course that, like beauty, is in the eye of the...
The old way
April 30, 2005
Members get a taste of car travel circa 1915 on a tour of the Ridge Route, the curvy road that united California It wasn't the typical Wilderness Adventures Section outing. No hiking was involved, just a reliable car that could handle traveling...
It's a deal! Agencies combine forces to buy Soka land
April 30, 2005
As of press time, the 588-acre property across from Malibu Creek State Park in the heart of the Santa Monica Mountains known as the Soka property or Gillette Ranch will have been purchased by a consortium of state and federal park agencies. Instead...
The Green Gardener: Win the weed war, organically
April 30, 2005
If you haven't kept up with weeding over this wet winter you may find yourself knee high in dandelions, stinging nettle, and grasses. You may be tempted to reach for an herbicide, but please consider the following before you do. According to the...
Puerto Rico named newest Club Chapter
March 31, 2005
The Sierra Club's national Board of Directors chartered the Club's newest chapter on Feb. 19. Puerto Rican Sierra Club members formally petitioned the board to become the first newly chartered chapter in more than 10 years. Puerto Rico will be the...