SAN FRANCISCO – Woody Smeck has been selected as superintendent of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in central California. Smeck has been acting in this position since April 2013 when previous superintendent Karen Taylor-Goodrich was selected as superintendent for the North Cascades National Park Service Complex in Washington state.
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Las Virgenes Homeowners Federation: Our Environmental Guardians
Excerpted from Assemblymember Bloom’s June 2013 Newsletter:
Millions of visitors hike, bike, ride horses, swim or just contemplate nature every year in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. This vast array of public lands is also home to communities that make up the membership of the Las Virgenes Homeowners Federation, a key stakeholder in the preservation and protection of open space in the Santa Monica Mountains.
County of Los Angeles Seeks Public Input – General Plan Update – Revised NOP for DEIR
REVISED NOTICE OF PREPARATION OF A DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC SCOPING MEETING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that County of Los Angeles, through the Department of Regional Planning (Department), will be the Lead Agency for the preparation of an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for the project described below. The County released the Notice of Preparation (NOP) for a public review period of 30 days for this process from August 15, 2011 to September 14, 2011. The project description in the August 15, 2011 NOP included an update to the General Plan (excluding the Housing Element) and an update to the Antelope Valley Area Plan. This notice advises interested parties and responsible agencies that the project description has been revised to exclude the Antelope Valley Area Plan Update. The revisions to the proposed project result in changes to the scope of the upcoming EIR from what was previously identified in the August 15, 2011 NOP. An EIR for the Antelope Valley Area Plan Update will be processed and noticed separately.
LVHF NAMES MALIBU COUNCILMEMBER JOHN SIBERT 2013 CITIZEN OF THE YEAR!
LVHF named Malibu Councilmember, John Sibert, 2013 Citizen of the Year, to a sold-out, who’s who enviro crowd, at our 46th annual banquet held at the beautiful Malibou Lake Mountain Club on Friday, May 10.
The Mountains’ Queen of the Hill
Reprinted from Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky’s Blog
Kim Lamorie and Wolfie in the landscape she's loved, and worked to protect, for decades.
Thirty years ago, Kim Lamorie took her first hike in the Santa Monica Mountains. As the 54-year-old activist recalls it, it was love at first sight.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY HONORS FEDERATION’S WORK!
Third District Supervisor, Zev Yaroslavsky, named Federation President, Kim Lamorie, as his Los Angeles County’s Third District, Woman of the Year recipient.
On Monday, March 11, 2013, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the Commission for Women will hold its 28th Annual Women of the Year Luncheon at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, 506 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles. The luncheon will begin at 11:00 a.m.
SENATE BILL 132 – PROTECTING OUR MOUNTAIN LIONS
MOUNTAIN LION FOUNDATION
www.mountainlion.org
(916) 442-2666
Dear Senator Hill,
On behalf of our California members, the Mountain Lion Foundation (MLF)
enthusiastically supports Senate Bill 132. This legislation is long overdue and its
passage is essential in assuring the protection of mountain lions that have caused no
harm, and whose only mistake is to have accidentally wandered into contact with
humans.
VOTING…THE ULTIMATE ACT OF OPTIMISM
Excerpted from the LA Times – Monday, March 4, 2013
Voting may be the ultimate act of optimism. If it can’t help, why bother? People who go to the polls are investing in the future of their city, asserting by their action that there is a choice to be made and that the choice is consequential.