Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi), San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, California, 1990.
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Excerpt from this New York Times story:
President Biden plans to expand the perimeters of two national monuments in California, protecting mountains and meadows in a remote area between Napa and Mendocino as well as a rugged stretch east of Los Angeles, two people familiar with the administration’s plans said Thursday.
The San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument will each get new boundaries designed to protect land of cultural significance to Native American tribes, as well as biodiversity and wildlife corridors, said the people, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to discuss the plans publicly.
The San Gabriel monument encompasses 342,177 acres of the Angeles National Forest and 4,002 acres of neighboring San Bernardino National Forest. Mr. Biden intends to expand the monument by approximately 110,000 acres.
The Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument includes nearly 331,000 acres of protected land in parts of Napa, Yolo, Solano, Lake, Colusa, Glenn and Mendocino counties, from Pacific Ocean beaches to a 7,000-foot mountain. It would be expanded by about 13,753 acres under Mr. Biden’s plan.
Both monuments were created by former President Barack Obama under the Antiquities Act, a 1906 law that authorizes the president to protect lands and waters for the benefit of all Americans. California lawmakers and tribal organizations have pressed Mr. Biden to make the declaration as part of the administration’s land conservation plan.
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Manifesting good weather for Renn Faire this weekend with this #ThrowbackThursday to a study of a photo from one of my former classmates, Juan Alvarenga 🌞 He also has some awesome art, which you can find on IG @/jalvarengaart - check it out! 👀 Catch the process vid here:
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A group hikes a snowy path along Brown's Mountain
San Gabriel Mountains, California
1959
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Silversun Pickups – Lazy Eye (2007)
The part of LA where I lived in the late 2000s was a really rich vein of just-breaking-through-"indie" music but then Daft Punk did that Coachella set and everyone sold their guitars and bought turntables.
This was the song coming out of there you're most likely to recognize, "Silversun Pickups" was actually a reference to a liquor store at the cross of Sunset and Silver Lake.
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despite ostensibly being set somewhere ambiguous, regular show is pretty obviously based off the LA area...right down to the main office being in a bedroom of a once-residential standalone craftsman home. that's some pasadena shit right there
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Summit of Mount San Antonio ("Old Baldy," 3,068 m), San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, 1993.
Despite the altitude, a great hike in good weather!
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Wife took a shot of the San Gabriel Mountains…
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"Until There Was Nothing"
Someday this will pass and there will be nothing left. The inevitable spaghettification of it all. That's not something to fear because we come from nothing... and from nothing comes something new.
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