NEWS
June 17, 1990 | EDMUND NEWTON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
To get there, Ronald Curtis heads out of Mt. Baldy Village along the Glendora Ridge Road until he reaches a metal gate riddled with bullet holes. He opens the gate and aims his dusty Jeep Cherokee down a dirt road, winding along a rocky flank of Mt. Baldy. After a lurching eight-mile ride, he pulls into the bottom of Cattle Canyon, where a herd of Nelson bighorn sheep forage along the stream bed, scampering nervously up the sheer sides of the canyon as the Jeep approaches.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 4, 1986 | BOB POOL, Times Staff Writer
Their zest in protecting oak trees and stream beds from developers has earned Agoura Hills officials the reputation of being steadfast environmentalists. But a dispute over responsibility for a creek that meanders through the city's most affluent residential neighborhood has converted those officials into hard-nosed pragmatists. City Council members say insurance liability problems could force them to pave a scenic stream bed that has been carefully preserved as a 43-acre neighborhood greenbelt.
OPINION
August 16, 2011 | By Sue Horton
As nature goes, the Hahamongna basin is not pristine. The wide, sandy arroyo, bounded by oak woodlands, sits just north of Devil's Gate Dam on the border of Pasadena, Altadena and La Cañada Flintridge. A gravel operation there, closed decades ago, has left scars on the landscape, and a Frisbee golf course threads in and out of the oaks. Noise from the 210 Freeway on the south end and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the north is ever-present. And if all that weren't enough, the Environmental Protection Agency has declared this part of the Arroyo Seco a Superfund site because of groundwater contamination by JPL, which once dumped solvents and rocket fuel in the area.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 16, 1993 | TINA DAUNT
Taking steps to minimize potential damage from the winter rains, the Board of Supervisors has agreed to spend $3.8 million to clear stream beds in areas damaged by recent wildfires. Without the improvements, the channels could become plugged with ash, mud and sediment from the fire-scarred hillsides. "Provided my guys can get some contractors lined up, we will start work very soon," county Public Works Director Art Goulet said Tuesday. "The watershed was severely damaged in the fires.
NEWS
November 19, 1992 | JEFF KRAMER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
You know your project's in big trouble when someone brings up the plastic trees. The fake trees were "planted" on Jefferson Boulevard in Los Angeles during the '70s on the theory that they would be cheaper to maintain than live trees. They attracted thieves, vandals, protests from bird lovers and howls of laughter from around the country before the city was forced to yank them out.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 14, 2000 | ZANTO PEABODY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office has asked a judge to impose stiffer penalties on the Wildlife Waystation for violating terms of a three-year probation for polluting stream beds. The request represents the first criminal action against the animal sanctuary above Tujunga since it was closed to the public two months ago for violating state caging and environmental laws. The refuge has been on probation since 1997 for altering the creeks that run through the 120-acre campus.