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Sierra Club

Fire-Followers in the San Gabriels

March 19, 2010

“Fire-Followers” is the name given to plants that tend to pop up after a wildfire has cleared the land of the usual vegetation. Many of these plants are unusual to the neighborhood, and generally don’t stick around for a long time, so if you’re going to venture into one of the open areas like Eaton [...]

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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 agree [...]

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Station Fire Recovery and Volunteer Opportunities

January 27, 2010

I just got word that the Sierra Club will be hosting Angeles National Forest Supervisor Jody Noiron at the Eaton Canyon Nature Center. She’ll be giving a free 90-minute presentation on Station Fire recovery efforts. Supervisor Noiron will describe the fire’s effects on the Forest and offer ways for volunteers to help in the recovery [...]

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Sign up for the Wilderness Travel Course

December 12, 2009

The Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club’s Wilderness Travel Course is offering an early-admissions discount to anyone who’s interested in taking the class next year, but it ends very soon. If you sign up before December 15th, you’ll save $15 off the tuition for the class, which covers pretty much everything anyone would need to [...]

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The Backbone Festival is Back

November 6, 2009

Starting this weekend and continuing through December, the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club will celebrate the annual Backbone Festival by leading free group hikes along sections of the Backbone Trail – that *almost* finished 68-mile trail through the Santa Monica Mountains from the Pacific Palisades to the Pacific Ocean. Each section will highlight a [...]

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The Importance of Hiking Outdoors

August 7, 2009

Much has been written about the physical and psychological benefits of exercise in general and – more recently – hiking, specifically. While indoor exercise is definitely better than no exercise at all, we hikers have one more distinct advantage over our wall-bound brethren – there doesn’t appear to be any video of hikers approaching the [...]

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Backbone Trail Festival

October 31, 2008

The 67+ mile series of trails that’s literally in LA’s backyard is about to have itself a par-tay! Every Saturday and Sunday in November, the Sierra Club’s Angeles Chapter will be holding its 11th Annual Backbone Trail Festival — with chapter leaders taking hikers on section hikes across the entire length of the trail, beginning [...]

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Destructive Hiking

April 11, 2008

LA.com’s Daily News is reporting hikers are damaging the re-opened trails of recently burned areas of Griffith Park by straying off trail and trampling over recovering chaparral. And who, you might ask, is doing all of this irresponsible hiking? According to the News, “elite hikers of the Sierra Club.” Up to 500 Sierrans hike Griffith [...]

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