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Environmentalism

The Best Summer Internship Ever

March 5, 2010

Internships are often a foot-in-the-door for future employment. While most of them consist of making coffee, filing papers, and generally performing the duties of an indentured servant, the Sierra Club is offering one lucky young person the chance to have what they are calling “The Best Summer Internship Ever” — and I think you’ll [...]

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Smartphone Botany

October 23, 2009

So I know I just wrote a story about someone who got attacked by a bear while she was checking something on her iPhone, but if you’re careful about when and where you use your smartphone on the trail, you can actually help out with an important project.
Invasive plants have long been a problem in [...]

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San Gabriel Mountains Public Comments

September 1, 2009

I know it’s tough to think about protecting the future of the San Gabriel Mountains when they’re pretty much entirely engulfed in flames, but planning for future use and management may help to prevent out-of-control infernos like the Station Fire.
San Gabriel Mountains Forever, a coalition of local and national groups, is urging citizens to attend [...]

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Laurel Canyon Open Space in Danger

August 7, 2009

I’m willing to bet most Angelenos have, at one point, had to drive up Laurel Canyon Boulevard to get from the city to the valley or vice versa. If so, you’ve also most likely passed what could potentially be the next addition in the patchwork of parkland that’s scattered through the Santa Monica Mountains [...]

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Happy Birthday, Smokey

August 5, 2009

Thursday, August 13th, is Smokey Bear’s 65th birthday, but the US Forest Service has planned ahead and launched a birthday section of SmokeyBear.com, devoted to the mascot’s long history in our wilderness … thankfully replacing the pretty racist WWII forest safety posters that preceded him.
The site has a huge gallery of historic print, radio, and [...]

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If You Ever Wondered Why California Doesn’t Have Grizzlies

July 8, 2009

… this probably had something to do with it:

via Leslie Miles, with thanks to my old boss Gavin for tweeting it.

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The Most Remote Place On Earth

April 21, 2009

We hikers and backpackers give ourselves a lot of credit for hiking hours into the wilderness, miles away from cars and electricity and the trappings of modern civilization. But the cold, hard fact is, really, we’re not that far away from the rest of the world. And apparently, neither are most of the [...]

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Cement Plant Proposed Near Grand Canyon?

March 16, 2009

Who ever thought of putting a cement plant 40 miles upwind of the Grand Canyon needs to get slapped in the face, then carted out to the South Rim to look at what they could have ruined.
Backpacker picked up a story about a proposed Cemex cement plant in Seligman, Arizona, and picked up the thankfully [...]

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Highway 39 To Re-Open?

February 12, 2009

In a kind-of-big-deal-news-for-hikers story, the Pasadena Star-Newsis reporting that Caltrans is starting a process that would rebuild and reopen a portion of CA-39 that’s been closed for 30 years.
CA-39 is a road you probably haven’t driven very far on. It doesn’t even show up on Google Maps until you’re almost at street view — [...]

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How To Get Free Water

February 11, 2009

Green LA Girl noted the LA Times’ coverage of the recent and upcoming rainstorms, and zeroed in on one sentiment in the article — that we were getting all this water, but we weren’t doing anything to save it, even with a drought and impending DWP water rate hikes.
She’s got a great post up about [...]

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