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Today in How To LA: Volunteers fill in the staffing gap to restore forest trails, Santa Anas kicks in; plus, walkers and cyclists take over the 110 freeway., one of the groups that is working with the Forest Service to restore and maintain the trails across the Angeles National Forest and the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument.the historic Mount Wilson trail in Sierra Madre after last year’s record-breaking flooding.
*At LAist we will always bring you the news freely, but occasionally we do include links to other publications that may be behind a paywall. Thank you for understanding! packed with people “We're all from different walks of life, but everybody is coming together with this love of trails,” said Erik Hillard, the CFO of Lowelifes.
“Right now, our priority is trying to address a wildfire crisis,” said Justin Seastrand, a natural resource specialist with the Forest Service in the Angeles National Forest. “It can be challenging to make sure other programs like trails, recreation, and those types of things, also get some attention.”The Forest Service provides trail work, chainsaw, jackhammer and safety training to groups such as the Lowelifes, who can then pass on that knowledge to their volunteers.
As volunteers such as Lowelifes increasingly play essential roles in sustainable trail maintenance and restoration, they’re also having a bigger influence on larger-scale planning in the forest.“Now that we've got a foundation of trust between our organizations, the work that our volunteers do, the quality of work and dedication…It went from feeling like, ‘Oh, well, the Forest Service is going to say ‘no’ to…What can we do together?” Hillard said.
"When you think you have it figured out, you'll get a curveball thrown at you like a winter as extreme as the one we just had," said Tom Stephenson, who heads theHalf of the endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep tracked by scientists died during last season’s record-breaking winter, according to researchers interviewed by LAist.
"It's frustrating," Stephenson said."I've spent a lot of my career trying to get this animal to recovery. And when you think you have it figured out, you'll get a curveball thrown at you like a winter as extreme as the one we just had." "I don't want to let go of this idea that there still might be sheep out there," said Sarah Stock, a Yosemite National Park wildlife ecologist, referring to the decimated Cathedral Range herd."But I am also realistic at the same time."The Sierra Nevada bighorn broke off from their desert bighorn cousins to form a distinct subspecies some 600,000 years ago, according to John Wehausen, who has been studying the Sierra sheep for close to 50 years.
Since then, state and federal wildlife officials have tried to carefully manage the herds. They’ve transported ewes and rams from healthy herds to augment smaller ones, and started new herds in other parts of the sheep's historic range. A sign showing a new route built to avoid increasing erosion on the Mt. Wilson Trail, named in honor of former lead trail volunteer Charlie Bell, who has since retired at 91 years old.From the first trails made by local Indigenous people, to settlers cutting trails with burros to take lumber from the forest, to the present day when thousands of hikers find a bit of peace in nature away from the bustle of the city, our local trails have long shifted and been remade.
He’s certain about something else too, also earned through experience: That it only takes a small group of people to make a big difference. Thousands of people packed the closed freeway, exit ramps, and surrounding areas, blasting ‘80s and ‘90s jams as they sped down the downward incline from Pasadena to Lincoln Heights.Meanwhile, the activity hubs attracted hundreds of local residents. At the South Pasadena hub, bikers and rollerbladers rolled past information booths and live music performances on their way to enjoy the“It’s a crazy experience, being from L.A.
By a 2-1 majority, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Saturdayan administrative stay while the state appeals a lower-court's order that would strike down the law. The appeals court is expected to hear oral arguments on that case in December. "The State of California posits that its 'assault weapon' ban, the law challenged here, promotes an important public interest of disarming some mass shooters even though it makes criminals of law-abiding residents who insist on acquiring these firearms for self-defense," Benitez wrote in a
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