San Bernardino Mountains

Snow Summit, Bear Mountain Open Today

One week after our last heat wave, snow season officially starts in L.A. Following a dusting of snow in local mountains, Snow Summit and sister resort Bear Mountain open for the season this morning with the help of snowmaking guns that have been working overtime Saturday and Sunday. Mountain High ... More >>

One-Third of Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs in Existence Just Died in Fresno

mylfrog.infoOne of 200 Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs left in the universe.​A rare breed of frog with leopard-like markings and funny haunches -- and absolutely no relevance to your everyday life, except that it's an L.A. native, and hey, neighbors look out for neighbors -- was wiped of 1/3 of i ... More >>

One Dead in Crestline Mountain Crash of Korean Church Bus Loaded With Teens

Google MapsThe area of the crash.​Updated after the jump: The deceased has been identified; the CHP states that the bus veered into oncoming traffic. Two people died when what appeared to be a church bus loaded with teenagers went over a mountain road in Crestline in the San Bernardino Mounta ... More >>

Camp Blogaway: A Boot Camp For Food Bloggers

Camp Blogaway​ There are two types of food bloggers, says Patti Londre, who runs Camp Blogaway, a boot camp for food and recipe bloggers. There are those who don't care all that much about how many hits they get but are more interested in the content, and there are those trying to make a few ... More >>

Los Angeles Is Taking Over America

​We laugh with a superior tone at friends who say this city or that city is big. Hah. They don't know big until they've seen greater Los Angeles spread out horizon to horizon from the seat of an airplane that just passed the San Bernardino Mountains (check out these photos). The metropolitan a ... More >>

Up Deep Creek Without a Paddle

Best naked escape

Let It Burn

The battle between firefighting and fire guiding

Fuel to the Fire

A smoldering argument over the causes of the Sawtooth fire. Did the wildflowers do it?

The Air That We Breathe

Just when it looked like we might win the war on smog, a new and more deadly form of air pollution stalks Los Angeles

Letters

Citizen Forester

Andy Lipkis speaks for the trees. Now he wants to solve our water problems too.

Virgin Zombies

Pearl – by – Pearl

Restoring the forest one shrub at a time

The Gods of Small Things

The Center for Biological Diversity cares as much about the unarmored threespine stickleback as it does a cathedral forest of trees, which is why it is reinventing the environmental movement and could be saving Southern California in the process.

Toner Poem

Xerox's father of necessity