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The endangered mountain yellow-legged frog depends on cold-water streams in the San Gabriel, San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains. Frogs and tadpoles were rescued from the 2020 Bobcat Fire burn area and raised by and cared for at Aquarium of the Pacific — and new froglets are now being released back into streams.
Sacheen Littlefeather made Oscar history when she turned down Marlo Brando's best-actor Oscar in 1972 over the treatment of American Indians by the film industry. Nearly 50 years later, the Academy formally apologizes to Littlefeather and welcomes her to a "healing" event next month at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.