Transit to Trails takes inner city youth and their families and friends on fun mountain, beach, and Los Angeles River trips. The project enriches their education about water, land, wildlife, and cultural history, and the importance of physical activity and healthy eating for life-long health. Transit to Trails lleva a los niños de la ciudad [...]

View towards Cuyama from Caliente Mountain Ridge Trail The Carrizo Plain is the largest remaining tract of the San Joaquin Valley biogeographic province with only limited evidence of human alteration. Lying adjacent to the southwest edge of the San Joaquin Valley in eastern San Luis Obispo County, the 250,000 acre area is a diverse complex [...]

Rohwer, Serome, Amache, Heart Mountain, Minidota, Topaz, Poston, Giva, Tule Lake, Manzanar “Manzanar was declared a Historic-Cultural Monument to remind us that the site was used as a war relocation center, unjustly confining 10,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, many of whom were American citizens, from March 1942 to December 1945. Seventy percent of the Los [...]

Today, the Governor signed a revised Fiscal Year 2009-2010 state budget, based on the package of bills sent to him by the Legislature on July 24. In using his blue-pencil veto authority, the Governor exacted an additional $6.2 million cut to the state park system, bringing the total General Fund cut to $14.2 million. It [...]

The 28 acre site of Griffith Park on the East Bank of the Los Angeles River in Atwater Village could be the Next Great Urban Park in Los Angeles. Picture a bucolic stream, a tree-shaded picnic area, a path for walkers and equestrians, a playground for little ones and new athletic fields where kids can [...]

The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the nation, has adopted a policy satement on Physical Education Program Compliance with Equal Protection Laws. The school district adopted the policy under physical education and civil rights laws in response to the physical education campaign by The City Project working with a diverse alliance [...]

Click on the banner for more details. Monday July 27, 2009 6:30am – 7:15am Morning Exercise 7:30am – 9:30am Continental Breakfast 8:30am – 9:20am Welcome and Opening Remarks   Janet Collins, Ph.D. Moderator   Rear Admiral Steven K. Galson, M.D., M.P.H. Acting Surgeon General, Office of the Surgeon General Department of Health and Human Services   [...]

California legislators approved a budget early this morning. Senator Gilbert Cedillo voted against the budget plan, stating: “This is the darkest day for Californians as we vote in favor of drastic cuts. The compromise has been made – on the shoulders of college students, poverty-stricken children, the unemployed, disabled, elderly, the sick and the poor. [...]

At the historic Dunbar Hotel and Central Avenue Jazz Park. Learn more about Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy. Visit the Heritage Parkscape online and on flickr.

The Great Wall of Los Angeles by Judy Baca © and SPARC. By LING WOO LIU Time Magazine July 22, 2009 What’s in an apology? Some expressions of remorse are commonplace — we hear them on the playground when kids smack each other on the head, or they land in your inbox after a friend forgets [...]