Prop 64 is a smoke screen Last week (Jan. 7) the CV Weekly reported that state officials project that about one-third of marijuana users will buy their drug illegally from an estimated $2 billion black market this year. It is well known that teenagers buy their marijuana off the black market. This week state officials […]
Montrose Search and Rescue – Lost Women Hikers Kept Their Wits Longtime friends Nancy and Vicki were young, just out of their teens, when they planned an overly ambitious hike one Saturday in January 1988. Their day hike was to be from Trail Canyon in Big Tujunga to the top of Condor Peak, looping back […]
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, […]