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Stop Poseidon from getting a permit for Huntington Beach desalination plant
August 4, 2016
The proposed Poseidon Huntington Beach Desalination plant in Huntington Beach was to be considered by the California Coastal Commission in September but now has been postponed at least until December. This unnecessary project would not only...
Join us for Coastal Commission hearing on Banning Ranch
August 4, 2016
This is the current final stretch in the race to Save Banning Ranch, a 400-acre swath of the last unprotected coastal open space in Southern California. It borders Newport Beach, Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach.
Three cctions you can take:
Sign...
3 crucial ways to protect California's coast
August 4, 2016
The wetlands at Banning Ranch, 400 acres of the last unprotected coastal open space
in Southern California. The land, which borders Newport Beach, Costa Mesa and Huntington
Beach, is slated for development. Credit: Everette Phillips/Banning...
Students get schooled in grass-roots activism, Sierra Club style
July 28, 2016
L.A. students Tajairi (TJ) Neuson (second from left), Makaila Conley, Conservation Program Manager
Angelica Gonzalez and SPROG trainers at Harwood Lodge.
How do you train the environmental leaders of the future? Sierra Club's SPROG program...
Chapter seeks Legal Committee volunteers
June 30, 2016
The Angeles Chapter is seeking new members for its Chapter Legal Committee.
The committee serves as a pool of pro-bono legal resources to provide advice and legal work to Chapter conservation activists. It also provides legal...
Want to be active with Chapter's Central Group?
June 30, 2016
The Angeles Chapter Sierra Club is made up of groups based on regions in Los Angeles and Orange counties. In 2015, the Executive Committee voted to place the Central Group under reorganization. This decision was based upon the group’s...
Why these owls need our help
June 30, 2016
Burrowing owls need a lot of space -- roughly about 200 acres -- to hunt for food. They are winter residents at Banning Ranch, one of the last stretches of privately-owned undeveloped land on Southern California’s coast.
These owls got...
One wild day for kids on ICO outing in Griffith Park
June 30, 2016
How do you get kids excited about the outdoors? Take them there!
LA ICO showed third-graders from Mid-City's Prescott School of Enriched Science in Los Angeles what nature in their own backyard is all about -- mountain lions and all. The...
Passings: Hersh Kelley, former Chapter chair and longtime leader
June 30, 2016
Longtime Sierra Club volunteer, leader and former Angeles Chapter Executive Committee Chair Herchel (Hersh) Kelley died June 10. He was 77.
Since mid-May, Hersh had been living in a care facility while recovering from emergency spinal surgery. He...