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ABC 7 LOS ANGELESANAHEIM, Calif. - The 9,200-acre Canyon Fire 2 in the Anaheim Hills was fully contained Tuesday, but crews were still doing clean-up work and continuing to patrol the fire-scarred area for hot spots.The blaze that broke out Oct. 9 destroyed 25 structures, damaged 55 more, threatened some 3,500 others at one point and prompted the full closure of the 241 toll road in both directions between the 91 Freeway and Santiago Canyon Road.The 241 was back to full operation by about 9 a.m. Monday, a week after the fire broke out, but Santa Ana Canyon Road between Woodcrest and Gypsum Canyon roads in Anaheim remains closed.Peters Canyon and Santiago Oaks regional parks remained closed, and it's not known when they will reopen, according to Marisa O'Neil of the OC Parks Department. But Irvine Regional Park was partially reopened this morning, she said.Visitors can enjoy the Irvine Park Railroad and the pumpkin patch, though the zoo remains closed, she said."We anticipate (the... (KESQ - KESQ)
When, where: 7 p.m. Tuesday at the REI store in Woodland Hills, 6220 Topanga Canyon Blvd.Admission, info: Free. (818) 703-5300CUBAPresentationAngel Castellanos will discuss how to travel to Cuba without worry or hassle.When, where: 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Adventure 16 store in Los Angeles, 11161 W. Pico Blvd.Admission, info: Free. (310) 473-4574SAN PEDROBeach cleanupDiscover what marine debris is doing to the ocean and help collect and categorize finds on Cabrillo Beach.When, where: 8-10 a.m. Saturday at the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro.Admission, info: Free. (310) 548-7562Please email announcements at least three weeks before the event to travel@latimes.com. (Los Angeles Times)
The site offers a classic New Mexico vista framed by desert badlands and mountain ranges, but in the canyon below are the burned-out shells of cars and trucks with household trash strewn about."We're just trying to start to clean up," Dunn said of the site just a few miles (kilometers) north of Rio Rancho. "It's a huge problem, not just here but all over New Mexico."Since 2015, the State Land Office has spent $2.7 million to remediate rangeland and forests, improve wildlife habitat and clean up dump sites around the state. In southeastern New Mexico, the agency has struggled to keep clay and gravel pits on state trust land from turning into garbage dumps.The battle is overwhelming, Dunn said, given that his agency has just over a dozen field workers and about 9 million acres (3.5 million hectares) to manage.State officials have said money spent to clean up messes could otherwise be used for public education. Lease payments, royalties and other revenues from oil and gas drilling, mining and other development on trust land is expected to provide some $450 million to public schools and other beneficiaries this year, Dunn said.While the state is home to vast swaths of government-managed land, Dunn said the problem with illegal dumping tends to be exacerbated in uncontrolled areas near population centers such as Rio Rancho."Bigger population brings more trash," he said.The state has contributed about $21,000 for fencing material and Zia Pueblo is paying about $45,000 in labor to install six miles (20 kilometers) of fencing that will block access to more than 5 ... (Lexington Herald Leader)
Mansfield Development Corporation in 2010.After the creek flooded following the Waldo Canyon fire in 2012, the Colorado Department of Transportation stabilized the waterway's banks and repaired an access road and trail that lead to the falls. Last year, the agency finished $1.8 in maintenance work on the bridge.But, despite the repeated efforts to make the area spray paint-free, the graffiti keeps coming back, Clark said."It's been over a decade that we've been working on this, and it's probably going to be another decade," she said.More upgrades are in the works. The county plans to spend nearly $450,000 in grants and local funding to revamp the site after it closes in early fall. Proposed renovations include improved trails and parking, a plaza with seating for visitors at the base of the falls and a foot bridge over Fountain Creek.The title of a historic site will come with other benefits, including new surveillance cameras, a gate to secure the area, and steeper fines for vandals who deface the falls, Clark said.The county will also install interpretive signs to convey the site's legacy, which dates back decades. The falls were once a site of spiritual significance for a band of Ute Indians known as the Tabegauche. The area also includes part of the original Ute Pass wagon trail, a thoroughfare that led settlers to mining camps to the west, such as Cripple Creek and Victor.The site will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday through August.-Contact Rachel Riley: 636-0108... (Colorado Springs Gazette)
Much of the trash we find on the beach is first littered miles away from the coast. It reaches the beach when wind and rain blow trash into our canyons, creeks and storm drains,” said Kristin Kuhn, San Diego Coastkeeper programs director. “Small, lightweight plastics are particularly dangerous because they move easily to the coast, are hard to remove and look like food to aquatic and marine life.”Volunteers with San Diego Coastkeeper and Surfrider Foundation picked up nearly 188,000 pieces of trash last year while tracking the amount, type and weight of trash for end-of-year analysis. Cigarette butts accounted for 32 percent of all trash removed, and remain the most common type of beach litter. With their plastic foam filters full of toxins, cigarettes also pose a significant pollution threat to San Diego’s waters. Plastic breaks down into smaller pieces over time but never biodegrades, releasing harmful toxins as it does. In addition to the toxins associated with the plastic itself, cigarettes are particularly harmful to San Diego’s marine ecosystems because they leach a number of other toxins — such as arsenic, formaldehyde and heavy metals — into the water.The beach cleanup volunteers also collected 4,302 fully intact plastic bags during 2016, continuing the trend of slight but consistent decreases in the number of plastic bags found each year. To protect our environment from plastic bag litter, California adopted a single-use plastic bag ban late last year. “We look forward to seeing how the bag ban affects the health of our beaches as we continue cleanups this year,” said Kuhn.La Jolla Shores was the cleanest ...
