As 2018 begins many major issues continue. Rockhaven and the Verdugo Hills Golf Course properties are not yet safe from development. Environmental concerns with the Scholl Canyon landfill and the project to re-power Grayson complicate Glendale planning. LA County is implementing a delicately balanced approach to reduce the sediment behind Devil’s Gate Dam while retaining […]
Montrose Search and Rescue – Plane Down in Dunsmore Canyon On a very foggy morning in June 1969, three 13-year-old boys set out on a hike up Dunsmore Canyon. At the same time at Van Nuys Airport, four young college students, one of them an inexperienced pilot, climbed into a single engine plane for a […]
Protecting and Preserving Open Space Throughout Our Communities In 2014, President Obama came to the Frank Bonelli Regional Park in the San Gabriel Mountains and signed an executive order making the mountains a national monument, adding it to the more than 150 national monuments created since the Antiquities Act was passed in 1906. The mountains […]
Canyon Name Origins – Arroyo Seco Continuing eastward, we find one last canyon, and it’s a big one. The Arroyo Seco begins almost at Mount Wilson, twists its way through the San Gabriel Mountains, and exits the mountains to form a natural eastern border of La Cañada. It continues south through Pasadena and Eagle Rock […]
Why Produce So Many Bills? Next month, thousands will once again fill the halls of the State Capitol when the legislature reconvenes on Jan. 3. For the next few months, legislators, staffers, lobbyists and advocates will zip in and around the Capitol, resulting in upwards of a thousand new bills all vying to become law. […]
Laments the Loss of a Tree A battle to save the life of a tree ended in the LCF Planning Commission meeting in November. Brutal pruning by a utility crew combined with an arborist’s report of dubious merit spelled a death sentence for an old oak. Here the tree’s defender decries in poetic voice all […]
Canyon Name Origins – Winery Canyon, Hay Canyon, Gould Canyon Winery Canyon – This small, dry canyon is immediately above the old Hall Ranch property. No roads reach it, but it can be seen from the intersection of Alta Canyada and Hacienda. The canyon is named for the Hall Ranch winery, which operated out of […]
Canyon Name Origins – Snover Canyon, Webber Canyon, Hall-Beckley Canyon Snover Canyon – This small canyon is visible if one drives to the end of Canalda Drive off Ocean View. It’s an oak-wooded dry canyon with a tiny trail running a little way up it. It runs down the mountain from east to west but, […]
The LA County Board of Supervisors voted to scale back the Flood Control District’s Big Dig program for Hahamongna Watershed Park, thanks, in part, to local Supervisor Kathryn Barger’s leadership. They added efforts to increase stormwater capture and groundwater replenishment and other measures to enhance sustainability. Judge James Chalfant was scheduled on Tuesday to consider […]
GUSD Calendars: Shorter Summers, More AP losses The GUSD school board votes on the next two proposed calendars on Tuesday, Dec. 12. Unless people speak up, our summer recess will shorten to nine full weeks with partial days on either end and AP students and teachers will lose four more days of instruction. It is […]