Meetings as Theatre
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After the fire: erosion and jackasses
The fire was long over, but the senseless tree-cutting continued. I was quite upset. I just couldn’t accept that the best thing for a park that had lost thousands of trees, would be to tear out 1000 more trees. Not to mention the growing erosion problem. And I felt like a wimp because I hadn’t crossed the forbidden barriers and gone into the burned areas, scout-like, on my own, to find out exactly what the Forestry Division was doing up there… photo by Martin O. Garcia, taken May 10, 2 days after the fire, on his daily hike. His own caption: “Griffith Park, AFTER.” Griffith Park Master Plan Meeting No…
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Apres fire
We had the May 29 meeting of the PROS committee (the first meeting of this group since the horrendous fire in May) at the Gene Autry Museum for a change. They were having a community Open House to present blah blah new plans and wings blah adding more traffic blah blah and not enough parking blah blah blueprints etc. Since the Autry is IN the park, but not totally OF the park, (they pay a whole dollar a year for the privilege of their occupancy!) I’m not really interested in the Museum, but thanks for asking. Also, I’ve been to a couple of Los Feliz Neighborhood Council meetings held at…
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Don’t yell out fire in uncrowded Griffith Park
I can understand why homeowners have been nervous nellies about pointing fingers at the fire department, really I can. Who needs firemen most? Desperate housewives and homeowners. But the LA Fire Department did such a craptacular job in the recent Griffith Park fire that maybe it’s time for someone to point a finger. So I will. Photo by permission from losermike. He describes it as a compilation of several photographs. It has a foreboding look, and was how I felt about the fire. It did not entertain me. We saw the fire from the beginning, on the south slope of the Park near the 5. Actually, it was the sunlight…