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Bill Lockyer joined members of the Verdugo Hills group on a hike from the Nature Center to a local peak, where he and the other hikers shared food at picnic tables. photo courtesy Garen Yegparian California Attorney General Bill Lockyer...

The Mission of the Angeles Chapter Political Committees which includes Los Angeles and Orange Counties, is to promote voter awareness, to advocate for environmental policy change, and to support the elections campaigns of Sierra Club endorsed...

Claire Dedrick, 1930-2005 Claire Dedrick died this past April at the age of 74. She originally became interested in environmental activism while fighting against a road expansion project near her home. She related that when a county engineer yelled...

photo by Matthew J. McNutt The Coachella Valley Preserve near Palm Springs conserves two rare habitat types. The blown-sand fields are a combination of sandy wash, rocky slopes, and alluvial plains created by surface water and wind sand...

Native species struggle for access to now-scarce resources California is home to many invasive species that cover the entire plant and animal kingdom, from exotic fruit flies, bullfrogs, and feral mammals to escaped exotic plants. Invasive species...

Two members of the Angeles Chapter staff have moved on. Jack Bohlka, who served as senior chapter director for four and a half years, resigned at the end of May in order to run his own photography studio. Johanna Zetterberg, who worked closely with...

Ed Begley Jr. to speak to Angeles Chapter on living simply Actor-activist Ed Begley Jr. in his suburban backyard, which hosts numerous edible plants. photo by Dominique Dibbell Ed Begley Jr. has been a working actor for 38 years and an...

Reprinted with permission from the Nature Conservancy website, tncweeds.ucdavis.edu. What is a weed? For a gardener, a weed might be a misplaced plug of grass. For a corn farmer, a weed may be a clump of nightshade. Since The Nature...

Glacier National Park casts a spell on all who witness its grandeur. Its sculpted peaks, turquoise lakes, and magnificent wildlife are its wand, 1.4 million acres its stage. I had seen so much of this park on television and in pictures over the...

The world oil production peak is imminent and the natural gas peak will follow in our lifetimes. After these peaks, oil supplies will diminish and prices will keep rising. Our lives will change drastically because petrochemicals are irreplaceable...