The proposal would increase the monument by roughly a third and extend its boundaries to the back door of Sylmar, Santa Clarita and Pacoima.
A decade ago, the city touted a $1-billion plan to turn a stretch of the L.A. River into something resembling its natural state. Yet today there are few visible signs of progress.
The pair said the president needed to act unilaterally, because the Republican-controlled House of Representatives seemed unwilling to approve a package of conservation bills that would not only expand the monument, but also create 31,000 acres of new wilderness areas and add 45.5 miles to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers system.
“Our request would establish better protection for more areas of the San Gabriel Mountains for conservation and improve public access to a range that has served as a glorious backdrop to the downtown L.A. skyline in countless advertising campaigns and postcards,” he said. After a hike above Pasadena’s Eaton Canyon in 1877, John Muir described the San Gabriel Mountains as the place where “Mother Nature is most ruggedly, thornily, savage.”
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