Forest Fire
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Too many big animals died in the Angeles Station Fire.
I was very sad about the 2nd column I wrote for the LA Weekly about animals killed in the horrific Angeles Station Fire. (I mean, the topic: the column itself came out fine.) The L.A. Times wrote that a huge number of big animals had died in the fire. I was going to call about this anyway, but the Weekly gave me the excuse I needed. I spoke with Kevin Cooper, a biologist with the US Forest Service, who was also mentioned in the Times article, briefly. Since my first post in my Griffith Park blog, a Google keyword phrase that people have been using to find my Griffith Park-oriented…
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I’ve forgotten, which fire are we in now?
More importantly, who set the Station Fire? If you tell me, I’ll share the $150,000 reward with you, 50- 50. It’s unbelievable, this wretched fire is still burning in places, several weeks later. KHTS: The Station Fire is 94 percent contained, with full containment now expected September 22. So far, the incident has consumed 160,557 acres of the Angeles National Forest which has not seen major fire activity in more than 40 years. It is the largest fire in the recorded history of Los Angeles County and the 10th largest in California history. As it turns out, my cartoon below I did for Slate is right; there was an arsonist,…
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LAFD Fail in the Station Fire.
I started this blog because of fire, and I’m picking it up again for the same reason. This time it’s the Station Fire. What, you expect me to just stand by while once again terrible things happen in LA because the city can’t take care of the Fire Department? I live in LA proper, and at this moment I can see over 20 separate fire peaks blazing in 5 different areas in the San Gabriel Mountains, La Canada, and whatever mountains and hills are out that way. And this has been happening for 4 days now. Even worse, is that 2 firemen were killed as their truck rolled over near…
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New source of water in Griffith Park! (Hands OFF, LADWP.)
George Grace, founder of the Griffith Park Natural History Survey, was also clever enough to find a new stream of water in the park!! (Well, the only stream, actually.) And he didn’t even have to use a divining rod. There is a subterranean stream under the Toyon landfill (garbage dump) in Griffith Park that the Master Plan Committee recently learned about…but that the Department of Public Works has apparently known about for many years. George sent out an email blast: What a great thought, to have a meadow on top of Toyon landfill with a real free flowing stream! Javier L. Polanco, P.E. of the Department of Public Works wrote:…
