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  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Alex Rodriguez, Young Duarte Man, Dies When Car Flies off Highway 39 Cliff

    This post has been updated to correct information about the victim's identity. Twenty-year-old Duarte man Alex Rodriguez was declared dead early Sunday morning. He had driven his Honda sedan off the side of the windy, cliffside San Gabriel Canyon Road -- also known as Highway 39. A 16-year-old gir ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    Cajon Pass Fire on 15 Freeway Stalls Vegas Plans for Labor Day Weekend

    Las Vegas SunView of the fire from those lucky enough to already be in Vegas.​Updated after the jump: The 15 South will reportedly be closed all night. The northbound lanes are open, but moving like molasses. Your Vegas trip: Officially a bust. Originally posted at 3:50 p.m. All those early b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Fourth of July 2011, Los Angeles: The Damage

    sfistHere we go again​Updated after the jump: The L.A. City Fire Department received 17 percent more calls than on a typical Fourth of July. At one point, there were 26 brush fires raging. Judging by the American flag-shaped sunburns on our foreheads and bottle-rocket scars rendering our thum ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    U.S. Forest Service Warns Hikers About Marijuana Grows, Wants You to Narc Out Narco-Traffickers in The Woods

    An herbal forest.​Snakes, rough terrain and dangerous temperatures aren't the only things you have to look out for in your local federal forest this summer. For at least the second year in a row the U.S. Forest Service has issued a warning to summer hikers: Beware of "marijuana grow sites" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    Largest Fire In L.A. History Could Have Fizzled Sooner, If Not For Mystery Slacker

    kevindean via Flickr​More than a year after the Station Fire spread from Angeles National Forest to wipe out 89 homes and take the lives of two firefighters, the U.S. Forest Service still can't point to a culprit for its embarrassingly slow response, which allowed a small blaze to become a mon ... More >>

  • News

    June 10, 2010

    Cowboy Down

    Murdered Arizona rancher Rob Krentz's family talk about his life and death

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    County Urges Feds To Allow Night Firefighting From Air

    File photo​The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday urged the U.S. Forest Service to allow nighttime air attacks on brush fires. The board cited damage done and momentum gained in the first night of the deadly Station Fire in August, which ended up as the largest wildfire in coun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    Rare big-animal deaths in Angeles National Forest's fast-moving Station Fire

    By Donna Barstow It turns out, we all lost someone in the Station Fire. The L.A. Times reported on the big animals killed in the Station Fire in the Angeles National Forest weeks ago, and since that time a Google keyword phrase that people have been using most often to find my Griffith Park-orie ... More >>

  • News

    October 8, 2009

    Did Feds Cause the Station-fire Disaster

    Ugly allegations that fire officials reduced air support, tankers and backup crews

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2008

    A New Firefighting Tool? A Canadian Company Joins the Battle to Fight Wildfires in California. President Bush Takes a Peek at the Giant of the Sky

    British Columbia resident Wayne Coulson says he has the tool that will save hundreds of homes threatened by California fires annually. It is called the Martin Mars water bomber. Owned by the Canadian company, Coulson Flying Tankers, the 162,000-pound Martin Mars can drop 7,200 gallons of water and ... More >>

  • News

    December 6, 2007

    California Fire Whisperers

    Facing down region's wildfires by divining where the flames will spread

  • News

    November 1, 2007

    Air Inferiority

    Is “Run!” the new strategy against firestorms on California's urban fringe?

  • News

    September 21, 2006

    From the Hoods to the Woods

    How an O.G. gangbanger turned himself into a hardcore firefighter

  • News

    September 21, 2006

    Let It Burn

    The battle between firefighting and fire guiding

  • News

    July 20, 2006

    Fuel to the Fire

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

  • News

    June 22, 2006

    Flights of Logic

    Enviros may sue to protect wildlife from oil

  • News

    July 14, 2005

    Big Bird’s Slippery Slope

    Can the condor survive more oil?

  • News

    May 12, 2005

    Beheading on Mount Baldy

    The strange tale of how a man lost his home, his money and his head to the woman he took in

  • News

    April 14, 2005

    Citizen Forester

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

  • News

    September 23, 2004

    The Yes Men Are Coming! The Yes Men Are Coming!

    In the midst of their 'Yes, Bush Can!' campaign, the busy pranksters spread faux Republican cheer on their way to L.A. for the opening of their new movie

  • News

    April 8, 2004

    South of Here

    Greg Leisz essays the roots

  • News

    November 6, 2003

    Bugs and Politics

    Two culprits for the Southland’s fires

  • News

    September 4, 2003

    The Monkey Wrench Guerrillas

    Is ELF ready to wage a more violent war for the environment?

  • LA Life

    May 29, 2003

    Pearl – by – Pearl

    Restoring the forest one shrub at a time

  • News

    November 28, 2002

    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.

  • Columns

    July 4, 2002

    Crime Wave

    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.

  • News

    November 9, 2000

    What's My Canine?

    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.

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