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New California Land Use Laws for 2015
Post date:The California Legislature passed tons of new environmental laws in 2014, with many of them going into effect on January 1. The area of land use regulations is no exception. We've compiled some of the most important new land use laws here.
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Illegal Off-Roading Overran Mojave Desert on Holiday Weekend, BLM Says
Post date:About 30,000 off-road vehicles descended on the Mojave Desert in California over Thanksgiving weekend this year, and many of those off-road vehicles ended up out of bounds in places they shouldn't have gone, according to the BLM.
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Angeles National Forest
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The Good and Bad of the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
Post date:Budgets and political lines could trouble the new monument, but they should not stop it from moving forward.
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Drab and Inconspicuous, Verdins Liven Up the Desert Anyway
Post date:I never thought about verdins much before this year. I knew they existed, ridiculously tiny songbirds not much more massive than the insects they eat. That was before I had them next to my desk for most of the workday.
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Where the Natives Are: 10 Indigenous Plant Environments Near You
Post date:Seasons? In Southern California? Of course! The spring season is when many plants, especially our local native plants, are in bloom. The last few weeks of spring not only give you a last chance to see their efflorescence, but to witness the transition ...
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Aldo Leopold
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Go Wild: Celebrating the Gila Wilderness Area's 90th Birthday
Post date:What do we mean by wilderness? The Gila Wilderness Area's history provides a complicated definition.
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From Pot to Not: How Sequoia and Kings Canyon Extinguished its Weed Problem
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Growing Pains: Legalizing Marijuana Might Save Our National Forests
Post date:Illegal marijuana grows are devastating our public lands. So why not make pot legal?
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earthquakes
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Learning to Appreciate Earthquakes
Post date:We humans fear what we cannot really understand. So maybe it's time for us Southern Californians to understand earthquakes a bit more. Or maybe even appreciate them.
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Pitzer College Divests from Fossil Fuels -- Who's Next?
Post date:Pitzer College's Climate Action Plan is a template for other institutions wanting to break their fossil-fuel addiction.
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Forest History Society
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A Woman of the Woods: Susan R. Schrepfer, 1941-2014
Post date:Susan Schrepfer was a keen observer of the human interaction with nature across time, a stellar historian.
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Martin Luther King, Social Justice, and Streetscape Environmentalism
Post date:Martin Luther King believed that if we fused social and environmental justice we'd build a more perfect union. Let's get to work.
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california coastal commission
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Nature's Odd Couple: Gray Whales and El Segundo Blue Butterflies
Post date:Protecting endangered species requires protecting their habitat. That's never easy.
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Elmer Avenue: A Sun Valley Native Plant Oasis, With a Purpose
Post date:On this particular street, the sound of mariachi, ranchera, Latin ballads, and techno music blast out of household stereos, a common soundtrack for the eastern SFV. But here, amidst sidewalk-less suburban streets, this block looks rather different.
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central valley project
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Irrigation Districts are Pumping Groundwater, Making Money, and Undercutting Their Future
Post date:Water may flow uphill to money but what happens when the water runs out?
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Antiquities Act
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Obama Just Expanded the California Coastal National Monument
Post date:President Obama used the Antiquities Act to expand the California Coastal National Monument. May it be the first of many.
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SoCal Needs to Plan for Drought, Even After Big Storms
Post date:Will the current drought bring welcome change to Califonia's water policies? Let's hope so.
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If Bill Nye Was a Very Old Tree, What Kind of Very Old Tree Would He Be?
Post date:When Bill Nye appeared on Bill Maher's show this month he ventured into my usual turf: the deserts of California.
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drought
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Save It on a Rainy Day: Rainwater Collection in the Drought Era
Post date:With 44 percent of total household water usage in Los Angeles going towards landscaping use, rainwater collection is important.
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Angeles National Forest
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A Better Way to Restore Wildfire-Burned Forests
Post date:Collaboration in the San Bernardino National Forest may help restore burned-over lands.