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Check out the Angeles Mule Pack Section
April 30, 2021
The Mule Pack Section conducts base camp trips into the Sierra Nevada Mountains. We hire packers to carry our camping gear to a selected base camp while we hike separately with only a day pack. You are able to enjoy the beauty of the...
Check out the Angeles 20s and 30s Section
April 30, 2021
The 20s and 30s Section is a group of 20 and 30 somethings interested in meeting new friends in the greater Los Angeles area while enjoying the outdoors through hiking, camping, backpacking, beach-combing, playing volleyball and other fun...
West Basin and the Angeles Chapter
April 30, 2021
World Water Day may annually be recognized on March 22, but we must honor and respect water every day as we confront climate change in order to ensure we have adequate supplies of safe, affordable water to meet our needs.
The management and...
Director's Desk: The Sierra Club Ecosystem
April 27, 2021
I do my best thinking when I'm out in the mountains.
Long, uninterrupted hours putting one foot in front of the other creates that rhythm where I reflect on the puzzles I'm working through in my work. But it's not just the rhythm -- I...
Pesticides Are Killing Our Bees
April 27, 2021
A group of pesticides called neonicotinoids have been causing destruction and killing bees for years, and we need to act now before it’s too late.
Sierra Club staff and volunteers work together to analyze and determine Club positions on...
Save the Planet & Spare the Desert
April 26, 2021
What does turning off the lights when you leave the room, have to do with preserving wild spaces? Everything. Here’s why.
California has adopted very aggressive decarbonization goals: to abandon all fossil fuels and to meet...
Paddling Against a Plastic Stream
April 23, 2021
Trash floats along the Cabrillo Beach breakwater by Paddle Out Plastic
With every launch of my kayak, I wonder, “Will this be the morning I don’t find any plastic litter?” But each time out I retrieve hundreds, and...
The Once and Future Planet
April 22, 2021
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Awards Banquet Rescheduled for 2022
April 14, 2021
Chapter Bulletin 4/14
Event Rescheduled Notice
Please be advised that the Angeles Chapter Annual Awards Banquet honoring the 2019 Awardees for outstanding volunteer achievements has been canceled for Sunday, May 2, 2021. The recognition for 2019...
Trash Talk Saturday: L.A.’s historic South Park is a little cleaner now
April 5, 2021
“There’s too much trash in the parks! Let’s do something about it." That’s what Mathieu Bonin, local Sierra Club activist, said recently. Starting in January, he’s organized three monthly litter collections in 2021...