The Encino park is one of 70 targeted for closure as part of California budget cuts. Fans are dismayed. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, December 26, 2011 Its buildings have survived droughts and earthquakes. But now Los Encinos State Historic Park faces another kind of hardship: state Read more…
Photographer Ed Lawrence noticed a solitary tree in the middle of an Albertson Ranch hayfield in 1962. One morning, he snapped the shutter — and the magnificent valley oak stood near the center of the resulting panorama. ‘That picture opened a lot of doors for me,’ says Lawrence, now 87. Read more…
The Vails’ former ranch, now part of Channel Islands National Park, is no longer a home for cattle, cowboys or adventurous children. And now the family’s last link to the place is being severed. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, November 29, 2011 Reporting from Santa Rosa Island, Read more…
The twin forces of power costs and climate-change regulations are threatening Southern California’s long love affair with imported water, forcing the region to consider more mundane sources closer to home. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, November 14, 2011 By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times; Reporting from Chiriaco Read more…
Times editorial board member Jon Healey explains the debate around the FCC’s proposed rules. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, November 9, 1022 By Jon Healey The Senate is expected to decide as early as Wednesday whether to throw out the Federal Communication Commission’s “net neutrality” rules before Read more…
Posting of U.S. flags on public land causes heated debate Source of this article: The Thousand Oaks Acorn, September 15, 2011 By Anna Bitong An American flag once fluttered over a ridge near Lynn Ranch. It flew in the same spot for at least a dozen years, maybe longer, local Read more…
A brief history of the incorporation of cities in the Conejo Valley Source of this article – Thousand Oaks Acorn, September 8, 2011 By Jonathan Kuperberg Scott Wolfe admitted it’s confusing. The planning director for Westlake Village—the city in Los Angeles County, not the Thousand Oaks community in Ventura County—said Read more…
For the past two years, American flags have periodically decorated the top of Ladyface Mountain, luring hikers to reach its summit. Each one unofficially marked the highest point on Ladyface at 2,031 feet. Source of this article: Agoura Hills Patch, August 24, 2010 The most recent one was placed at Read more…
Shull ‘Buzz’ Bonsall Jr. has closed a century-old route on his property. But hikers plan to fight for access to Matilija Falls, which is on public land. Source of this article – Los Angeles Times, June 27, 2010. By Catherine Saillant, Los Angeles Times Reporting from Matilija Wilderness — Urijah Read more…
ForestWatch is Working to Keep the Trail Open, and is Looking for Anyone Who Used This Trail Prior to 1972 Source of this article – Los Padres Forest Watch, April 12, 2010 Ojai, Calif. – Today, the U.S. Forest Service announced that a landowner with extensive holdings in Ventura County Read more…