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As Santa Ana winds blew into the region, the National Weather Service reported gusts reaching into the triple digits on Monday. The highest: 104-mph gusts recorded near Magic Mountain, in the San Gabriel Mountains.had their power shut off to mitigate fire risk, mostly in San Bernardino County. Nearly 200,000 SoCal Edison customers could still see their power cut during the wind event.Red flag conditions will stick around into Monday night.
*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 In downtown Los Angeles, temperatures will reach up to 85. In the valleys, the highs will reach up to 84, and up to 80 in inland Orange County. In Riverside and San Bernardino counties, temperatures are a few degrees cooler with highs up to 83.
“It was a closed dump,” said John Kinch, the solar company’s executive director. “There was grass and some flowers and weeds growing there. “ At her next job, she decided to go further: “The first thing I did when I started in academia after my postdoc was to write a proposal about looking at the end of life of solar modules and the need for recycling and sustainability.”“The response to that proposal was just, ‘Well, that’s not a problem. And it’s not going to be a problem for a long time. So we’re not going to fund that,’” she recalled.
Jesse Simons helped found the California recycling company Solarcycle last year, and is the company’s chief commercial officer. He said the first step is sending out a team to determine whether panels can be reused instead of recycled at their facility in Texas.“A robot, essentially, pops the frame off,” Simons said.of glass, silicon, and plastic polymer, built to withstand decades outdoors, and specialized recycling systems are needed to recover valuable materials.
“Deliberate, intentional action is needed to make this happen,” he said. “Otherwise, you’ve got thousands of actors all doing whatever they think is in their own self-interest. And it’s not going to be a coordinated reuse and recycling system.”Bob Spears, lead trail maintenance volunteer for the first 3.
Bob Spears, lead trail maintenance volunteer for the first 3.5 miles of the Mount Wilson Trail, which starts in the city of Sierra Madre and is one of the most popular hikes in the area.“We're seeing vast changes in the weather patterns and that's going to affect a lot of how we do things,” Spears said. “And in my particular case, it's a lot about how we maintain the trail.”
Bob Spears holds a new sign he installed at the Mt. Wilson Trail trailhead. People and their dogs too often have to be rescued because they didn't bring enough water.Between and around those spots are all the areas that Spears and his volunteers have fixed since last winter’s storms. Fixing the trail generally means “benching” it — cutting into the mountain to make an eroded trail wider, while shaping the trail so water runs off of it instead of into the center, eroding it further.
The trail most similar to today's was originally built in 1864 by Benjamin I. Wilson, or Don Benito, who used it for lumber for his ranch, now the Huntington Library and Gardens.The Pacific Electric “Red Cars” came to Sierra Madre in 1906 and ran until 1950, bringing thousands of people from the growing city of L.A. to hike the trail.a grove about a mile-and-a-half up the trail that’s shaded by trees along a flowing, natural creek that’s still gushing with water from last winter’s storms.
They’re one of the most active groups that works officially with the Forest Service to do much-needed maintenance on some of the most-used and most rugged trails in the forest. “The Forest Service has really realized that they can't do all this anymore and they need the volunteers,” Hillard said. “The scale at which they impact trails and recreational resources is way beyond what the Forest Service can do ourselves,” Seastrand said. “We are spread thin, and my personal opinion is the Forest Service probably always will be a little spread thin, so you gotta learn to work with it.
“The main thing to me is just to be out here and to enjoy it while I can and try to improve what I can,” Hillard said. “I think that encouraging people to come out and volunteer — at least it's a way of getting people out into nature and starting a relationship with it. And the more that people have a relationship with it, maybe they'll notice things more at the ballot and when they're reading the news because they've been out here and they saw a burned tree.
Naturalists and ecologists also see bighorn sheep as emblematic of the Sierra Nevada wilderness."In Yosemite, we have this ideal of wilderness as being a place that's wild and free," Stock said."And to me, having studied the bighorn sheep for almost two decades, they really epitomize that." The bighorn recovery team also does winter and summer surveys of the areas occupied by the 14 bighorn herds they monitor, but some sheep territory is difficult to access. Researchers say it’s possible some sheep in the hardest-hit herds survived and simply couldn't be found.
That led to many decades of decline. By the mid-1990s, there were only about 100 Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep left. Conservationists ramped up efforts to save the species, and they were listed as endangered by the state and federal government in 1999. Researchers had documented heavy losses of bighorn in the winter of 2016-2017 and, to a lesser extent, 2018-2019. But deaths this year were the highest since species recovery efforts began.
"This is a game of small numbers and in small numbers you're vulnerable to things like unexpected changes in the environment," she said.Another potential reason the Sierra bighorns fared so poorly this year is because they lack generational knowledge of migration routes that might've helped them find food and escape avalanche-prone areas.
One of the lions had killed more than 10 Sierra bighorns, Stephenson said,"so we really couldn't just let it remain within the recovery area and continue to eat bighorn sheep." Stephenson said he felt the story failed to explain the dire straits faced by Sierra bighorn and his program's longer-term efforts to manage the directly competing interests of the sheep and lions.
The wild sheep ranks highest among the animal mountaineers of the Sierra. Possessed of keen sight and scent, and strong limbs, he dwells secure amid the loftiest summits, leaping unscathed from crag to crag, up and down the fronts of giddy precipices, crossing foaming torrents and slopes of frozen snow, exposed to the wildest storms, yet maintaining a brave, warm life, and developing from generation to generation in perfect strength and beauty.
Spotting them requires patience, silence and good eyes. Good binoculars or a spotting scope also help a lot. He has come to think that saving the species will require much longer-term thinking — figuring out how best to help them withstand the still-uncertain future climate.
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