CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 23, 1992
Looking over a scenic Sherman Oaks canyon cluttered with old sofas and discarded mattresses, Los Angeles City Councilman Michael Woo called this week for more volunteers to support the Adopt-a-Canyon program. The Adopt-a-Canyon program is patterned after the Adopt-a-Highway program, encouraging removal of litter from canyons and other natural habitats throughout California.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 28, 1991
Spring Canyon is undergoing a spring-cleaning this week and next. Since Monday, the California Environment Project and the Los Angeles Conservation Corps have been working to clear a two-mile stretch of the lower part of the ravine north of Valley Canyon Road in Canyon Country, said Scott Mathes, CEP executive director. The dried-up creek bed has been choked with junk and debris over the years as people converted Spring Canyon into an illegal dumping site.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 11, 1992 | JULIE TAMAKI
A stolen car, 40 tires and a couple of pay telephones were among the items that a crew of workers discovered Tuesday in the third annual cleanup of La Tuna Canyon in Tujunga. The upper canyon is the site of a two-week cleanup by minimum-wage Los Angeles Conservation Corps employees and volunteers from the California Environmental Project, said Scott Mathes, executive director of the project. The second phase of the cleanup, in the lower canyon, will be launched in mid-December, he said.
NEWS
April 15, 1993
As a prelude to Earth Day, teams of volunteers will fan out into the Angeles National Forest on Sunday to clean up trash in two canyons. The one-day project is part of a countywide effort sponsored by environmental groups. "This day is designed to give people not only a chance to see the beauty of the canyons, but see how they feel about cleaning them up," said Scott Mathes, director of the Glendale-based California Environmental Project. "It's a way to introduce people to what we do."
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 22, 1992 | CAROL WATSON
Looking over a scenic Sherman Oaks canyon, cluttered with old sofas and discarded mattresses, Los Angeles City Councilman Michael Woo called Thursday for more volunteers to support the Adopt-a-Canyon program. "We have to do a better job of taking care of canyons so they're not magnets for dumping," Woo said at a news conference at Dixie Canyon.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 26, 1994 | MAKI BECKER, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
The boys and girls in Doug Copeland's fourth- and fifth-grade class took a couple hours off from school Tuesday to clean up their back yard--the litter-strewn Big Tujunga Canyon. With their sleeves rolled up and hands protected by rubber gloves, the youngsters from Plainview Elementary School in Tujunga picked up trash left by picnickers along a stream. "This is gross," said Tony Orozco, 9, peering at his collection of cups, old clothing and part of a mattress he stuffed into a garbage bag.