Winter/Spring 2020 Leadership Academy The deadline has passed for submitting applications for Cohort 17 of our Leadership Academy. Please sign up to get our newsletter or follow up on social media to get updates for the new round of applications for Cohort 18. Leadership Academy sessions will take place in San Gabriel Valley and Los…
Continue reading ➞ Enrollment Closed for Leadership Academy Cohort 17
#OptOutside, the campaign started by REI to encourage people to go outside on the Friday after Thanksgiving instead of shopping, is a hashtag holiday we can get behind it! Here are some of our favorite places to bike and hike. See you outside!
We began National Trails Day this morning with a rally with Congresswoman Judy Chu, where we celebrated new legislation to expand the monument and create a National Recreation Area, then we embarked on an afternoon of trail work at Crystal Lake. What you can do: Be inspired by some of our favorite places to hike. (Share your own favorites in…
Leadership Academy graduate Liliana Camacho Guzman led a workshop at Drew Magnet High School, followed by an Eaton Canyon visit and hike with the students. As part of her project, Guiding The Eagles to Their Nest, she discussed environmental justice, access to green and open spaces, and our work in the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and…
Continue reading ➞ On the Ground Work Update: Guiding The Eagles to Their Nest Project
We all know that recreation in the great outdoors is good for your health -- and that includes your mental health. We hosted a Mental Health Hike this weekend with the Wilderness Society for mental health professionals, including psychologists, psychology professors, psychology students, social workers, counselors, and others to walk and talk about the connection between nature and…
Continue reading ➞ Good for Heart & Mind: The Mental Health Hike
We're excited to share this short video that documents our work on transit to parks in Los Angeles! When the City of Duarte introduced a pilot program for a free shuttle bus to take passengers from the Gold Line station to the Fish Canyon Falls trailhead, we jumped aboard -- and we held an event to celebrate the good transit-to-parks…
Saturday, June 4 marks National Trails Day and SGMF member organization the Community Hiking Club will be working with volunteers on the Dagger Flat trail. "Dagger Flat has a long history," says Community Hiking Club's Dianne Erskine-Hellrigel."It was originally a Tataviam footpath, then the CCC made an actual trail out of it in the…
Continue reading ➞ National Trails Day: Trail Work at Dagger Flat
