Posted on 10/12/2014 5:02:54 AM PDT by Enlightened1
President Barack Obama on Friday spared from future development nearly 350,000 acres of land within the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles, a move that cheered environmentalists but sparked new criticism of Obama's willingness to use his executive authority.
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Well, the real problem with water is how our government through subsidies has produced a distorted picture of the availability of water in areas of the nation such as California. I wonder some days if any environmentalists actually want subsidies down so that water costs better reflect its availability.
More control
Whatever happened to States Rights?
We Angelenos are not happy.
The area will be open for public access.
I spent a week in La, actually Ontario, on business. I woke one morning and lo and behold...... mountains, right there behind the Holiday inn. I had been there three days and the mountains were obscured by smog
It might have been haze, not smog. At certain times of year it is hazy every single morning.
Just make sue you get your permit before taking any pictures.
That’s right it will only cost you $1,500 to take a photo.
I have a Golden Eagle pass that permits entry etc for free.
Ontario is at the very east end of the basin. The marine layer comes in this time of year and pushes all the air eastward, where it piles up against the high mountains. It’s a problem other cities would have with similar geography. When the desert winds come in, it is clear and lovely.
Knowing the o-man, he will try to control: the shooting ranges (out of existence), any little coffee shops along the way (capitalism is bad, you know), the light bulbs, the plastic bags, and probably what is on the lunch trays. The ski areas will be told they must - what?? - hire racial quotas, regardless of their expertise? Cease and desist? God knows what he has in mind.
I believe in subsidiarity, in local control of everything that can be taken care of locally, and I do not like the land-grabs.
That wasn’t smog.
It used to, until they paved the San Gabriel river and dried up all the artesian wells.
For those of us in the eastern mountains, we have trouble distinguishing smog from haze.
I guess it’s like Eskimos having several words for snow. In La La Land they apparently have several words for bad air
For almost the entire spring the weather report will say, “Late night and early morning low clouds and fog, giving way to hazy sunshine in the afternoon.” It’s yucky down there!
I live at the top of the I-15, well east of Victorville. We don’t get that stuff up here. Yet, occasionally, I can smell the ocean. Go figure.
The lake is mostly dry now.
Yeah.,. Cameras were facing eastward from the swim beach at Bonelli, you would have had to look left (and away from The One) to see the San Gabriel's, only nothing you could see would be part of the national monument, which excluded the front range and the San Dimas Experimental Forest.
Obama and his three escort helicopters didn't even fly over the important national monument on the way to the speech from the Democrat fundraiser.
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