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Happy Tuesday! Yesterday's light showers are leaving the region, but don’t put away those umbrellas — yet another storm system is expected to arrive in L.A. this weekend.
Forecasters say the storm coming from the Gulf of Alaska is expected to move into the area Friday evening. A winter storm watch will go into effect Saturday morning and currently is scheduled to last into Sunday morning. There is less moisture predicted with this storm, so rainfall totals won’t be as high as they have been. However, heavy snow is possible, with amounts of 6 to 12 inches above 2,500 Feet. Elevations above 7,000 feet could see up to 2 feet of snow.
One note — milkweed does spread. You can plant it in a small area of your garden and remove the seed pods before they open and disperse in order to prevent them from spreading.“So a lot of monarchs are leaving their overwintering sites along the coast and starting to travel inland and more north across the United States to get back to where those milkweeds are popping up," Howard said.
Typically, a monarch's decline can reflect the reduction in other insects. That result can then affect native songbirds and other mammals. A 32-year-old man, who identified himself only by his last name, Garza, was one of about 100 people who attended a debate at the Delores Mission in Boyle Heights earlier this month.
De León has said officers deserved the raise and that he worked to reduce the allowed rent increase from 7 to 4%. Carrillo came under criticism after she was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol in November and crashing into two parked cars in Northeast L.A. She pleaded no contest to misdemeanor DUI and is attending a substance abuse program at Kaiser and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, she said.Miguel Santiago is the other assemblymember running. He called De León’s comments on the tape “shameful.”Santiago is the only candidate to benefit from outside money.
“Community members have to gather together with their own brooms and mops and trash bags and go clean up areas,” he added.Peter Dreier, professor of politics at Occidental College, said it’s unlikely any of the candidates will win a majority of votes in the primary, meaning the top two finishers would face off in the November general election.
Criminal justice reform advocates say judges with defense backgrounds — either public or private — can balance out the tough-on-crime rhetoric that has led to mass incarceration. And they say former defense attorneys can bring diversity to a bench that now has a range of alternatives to incarceration at its disposal.
“We need people that understand struggle and that will listen to the stories and care,” Henderson said. “The primary goal is not to cycle people in and out of Los Angeles County jail. But the primary goal is to make sure that people get access to resources,” Turner said. “Certainly I did not see myself being a part of a system which made it difficult for me to help people in that condition, so the changes in the law are really the impetus for me,” Wiley said.
“There have been some interesting sort of retrospective realizations by judges about having sat on the bench throughout this era we call mass incarceration and feeling quite self-conscious about their contribution to it,” Simon said. A state bill would require demographic data to include a category for Californians of Middle East and North Africa descent. Plus, more.The Book Rack in Arcadia is closing down after serving the community for 40 years. Karen Kropp has worked at the store for most of that time and in the last two decades has owned the used bookstore and tried to keep it afloat.: Rising costs, including rent and utilities, have become too much for Kropp, who is approaching her 80th birthday.
When Pat Carlson, the original owner of the Book Rack, died, her husband Chuck sold the used bookstore to Kropp.Kropp employed two local high school students, part-time. They worked at the Book Rack through high school, college, and are now completing their graduate degrees. Rather than hire new employees, Kropp thinks it's a good time to shut down the shop as her longtime employees move on.
When her sister retires later this year, she plans to use her Social Security checks to travel in a RV. She says she’ll miss California and the friends and people she’s met here.Mayor Karen Bass, LAPD Chief Michel Moore, and DA George Gascón hosted a news conference to get the message out about the shootings last December.Jerrid Joseph Powell, the Los Angeles man charged with the shooting deaths of three unhoused men and an L.A.
Ecologists estimate that up to 14,000 sequoias have been killed in recent wildfires, a shocking number for a species that was thought to survive most fires.Over only two years, about one-fifth of all giant sequoias have been killed in extreme wildfires in California. The numbers shocked ecologists, since the enormous trees can live more than 2,000 years and have evolved to live with frequent, low-intensity fires in the Sierra Nevada.
The debate is one occurring on public lands across the country as the impacts of climate change get worse. Land managers face a key question: As humans take an increasing toll on natural landscapes, how far should we go to fix it? Some areas of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks show a carpet of green — thousands of sequoia seedlings poking a few inches above the ground. In more severely burned areas, there are fewer emerging from the soil."Lots of bad things are going to happen to these," Brigham says, looking down at the carpet of green."Another fire, fire after fire, before they get that big. Dead trees are going to fall on them. So they make a lot. A lot, a lot, a lot.
The KNP Complex Fire roared up this sequoia grove in less than a day. Fire crews made a last-ditch effort to save some of the enormous trees, clearing the vegetation around them as the flames moved in.Smaller pines and other trees, killed in California's extreme droughts, acted as kindling in recent wildfires, fueling the intense burning.The forest here was primed to burn.
"Planting sequoias, that's a legacy thing. Something we were all stoked to do that will transcend after us," says crew member Micah Craig. "We need to allow nature some places where human beings aren't trying to be the managers, aren't trying to be the gardeners," says George Nickas, executive director of Wilderness Watch, one of the groups that filed suit."Because we're the ones that messed it up, it doesn't flow that we're the ones to fix it. That's that sort of arrogance of humanism, if you will. That's when we need to learn to step back.
In proposing the project, the National Park Service says climate change poses an even greater risk that sequoia seedlings will struggle to get established. Hanson says he'd prefer that the park service monitor the seedlings' survival before making a decision to replant.
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