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With Memorial Day weekend signaling summer vacation season, a congressional report looks at the damage of the sequester.
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Damage is less extensive than had been feared, but the castle and its immediate evirons will stay closed until everything's back to normal.
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A fire of unknown cause is burning near the historic Scotty's Castle in Death Valley National Park, and part of the park near the castle has been closed to visitors.
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With the 24,000-acre Springs Fire fully controlled, officials in the Santa Monica Mountains are beginning restoration, making sure habitat and recreational opportunities get back to normal. On Friday, volunteers will take to Rancho Sierra Vista, removing tracks made by...
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The ranger, accompanied by his dog, was fishing around sunset at Crescent Beach. At some point, he noticed the canine being chased by a mountain lion.
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Much of the public outreach to the National Park Service and California State Parks has been to ask how they can help the 14,000 acres of burned parkland.
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It's a fairly rare event for a bat to contract rabies, and the rate of transmission of rabies from bats to humans is low: about 10 cases in North America since the 1970s.
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Rattlesnake Canyon was closed to the public in early April after rangers discovered a rash of spray-painted graffiti on the canyon's rock walls and boulders.
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Death Valley National Park is visited by over 800,000 people per year and nearly half of them end up at the Furnace Creek Visitor Center.
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So much for the sequester. It looks like Mother Nature (or, well, climate change) is winning.
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Tens of thousands of acres in and around the San Gabriel Valley are proposed to become part of the National Park Service, according to a plan put forth to Congress last week
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"This is a good reminder for visitors to stick to the trail and avoid the vegetated areas where ticks like to hang out," said Evan Jones, the chief ranger for the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
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A new rash of graffiti has prompted the closing of yet another popular day use area, this time at Rattlesnake Canyon near the Indian Cove campground.
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The characteristic backlit red pavement of Kelbaker Road | Photo: Jim Stanger/Flickr/Creative Commons License There are a lot of epic road trips possible in the California Desert, but only one connects three National Parks -- and a proposed National Monument...
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At least in the Eastern Mojave, this is one of the best bloom years for Joshua trees in living memory.
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It's not often that Bear Gulch Caves are completely open.
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It's a 30,000 foot view type of message: 900 jobs, or 6 percent of permanent staff positions, will remain vacant, some facilities will close completely when they breakdown, and more.
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SoCal Wanderer contacted over 10 National Park units in California to get details on how sequestration will affect visitor experience.
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If the sequester takes effect Friday the National Park Service, like most all federal agencies, will face severe cuts. With such major change comes words from leadership.
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The free event is an expo with kid activities and a series of lectures and field trips with scientists from NASA centers and research facilities.
California Foraging: San Gabrielino
Make a salad -- and some croquettes -- using wild SoCal ingredients.
