A video/conference call/live stream meeting started at 9:30 this morning. The agenda item we were waiting for was #32 (of 33). The item began at 3:45, with comments starting around 4:30. Our item ended at 5:53. Who hangs on a … Read More
This article identifies four key ways to prevent this type of massive pandemic from happening again. It includes: ensuring supplies of medical equipment, having adequate testing, banning the wildlife trade, and saving nature. This article identifies four key ways to … Read More
Last year was quite wet in terms of the rainfall. This helped promote an amazing super bloom. It also finally allowed the intermittent streams to fill up and flow. An intermittent stream ceases to flow during dry periods. A perennial … Read More
This insect goes by many names: stink bug, darkling beetle, clown beetle, and pinacate beetle. It is jet black in coloring and there are 1400 species within the family. Why does it have the name stink bug? You guessed it, … Read More
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.” We find photos with clouds so amazing. Clouds offer a texture rich environment that a simple blue sky just can’t compete with. While … Read More
This beautiful yellow flower is called golden yarrow. It grows in many plant communities, including: yellow pine forest, red fir forest, lodgepole forest, subapline forest, foothill woodland, chaparral and valley grassland. There can be up to 30 blooms in a … Read More
** ACTION NEEDED ** Hills For Everyone supports the effort to list the Southern California mountain lion as a California endangered species–along with many other groups. This listing would give cougars more protections and considerations when developments, road or infrastructure … Read More
The More You Know… Poison oak is found throughout the Puente-Chino Hills Wildlife Corridor–especially in oak woodlands and chaparral environments. You can identify it easily when the leaves are present because there are “leaflets of three.” Remember the saying “leaflets … Read More
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”–Langston Hughes While the rain dampens the earth again, we can’t help but think of the benefits it … Read More
While we continue to physically distance ourselves from one another… many have come to realize the relief that parks provide, the healing forces they offer, and how dire the need is for more parks. This is why we are in … Read More