NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, Updated April 10

We did a search of local newspaper websites for articles related to the mission of the RMC and its three Joint Powers Authorities. The articles are listed in reverse chronological order; most recent at the top.Click on a title to read the complete article on the newspaper website.

Reforestation not taking root in Station Fire area
04/08/2012
An ambitious reforestation plan for areas scorched by Southern California's devastating Station Fire has been slow to take root, with most of the 900,000 seedlings dying in the year since they were planted....

Long Beach gets $5.3M in state grants for parks
04/07/2012
An East Village project to turn one of the city's most dangerous intersections into a park will now be funded with state grants, city officials said Friday....

Schabarum Park to get new horse stables
04/06/2012
Exactly 10 years since a crowd of angry horse owners complained about poor conditions at Schabarum Park in Rowland Heights, the barn is getting a complete makeover....

Friends of Pio Pico vow to keep historic homestead open
03/31/2012
WHITTIER - There will be no reprieve this time around for the Pio Pico State Historic Park. Although it has been saved from closure the past three years, the former homestead of California's last governor under Mexican rule, will be closed July 1....

Whittier receives $554,000 grant for Greenway Trail
03/29/2012
The city has received a four-year $554,000 grant from Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority for new directional signs and landscaping....

Grant to go to Colorado Lagoon's restoration
03/27/2012
LONG BEACH - The San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy (RMC) awarded the city a $500,000 grant to support the restoration of the Colorado Lagoon....

Colorado Lagoon Restoration Dredging On Schedule
March 15, 2012
Restoration of the Colorado Lagoon through a massive dredging project has reached full tilt these last couple weeks....

Council candidates debate impact of Whittier hills project
03/15/2012
WHITTIER - The oil drilling project was again a key subject dividing incumbents and challengers running for three seats on the City Council during a candidates' forum Wednesday....

Los Cerritos Wetlands Restoration Complex, Costly, Possible
March 14, 2012
As early restoration plans for the Los Cerritos Wetlands progress, experts began to release more details that illustrate just how complex and potentially wondrous a rehabilitated area could be....

City officials look for money to pay for additional amenities for Greenway Trail
03/10/2012
WHITTIER - When the City Council last week approved a contract for a new parking lot to serve the Greenway Trail, it was another of those small amenities the city has been adding since it opened the 4.5-mile path in August 2008....

Hundreds commemorate Gibson Mariposa Park grand opening with community celebration
03/10/2012
EL MONTE - A once desolate vacant lot here was jumping with activity and laughter Saturday as hundreds of children climbed jungle gyms, squealed running through a water play area and explored the newest addition to El Monte....

Coastal panel to hear proposal for limited Los Cerritos wetlands restoration
03/07/2012
LONG BEACH - The state Coastal Commission staff is recommending that plans to restore a portion of Los Cerritos wetlands ecosystem be scaled back....

Proposed change at Whittier Narrows Equestrian Center has horse owners spooked
03/07/2012
Families who board horses at the county's Whittier Narrows Equestrian Center are worried a scheduled project to completely overhaul the facility will price them out of the stables....

More bike lanes, paths planned for county; three key projects planned for San Gabriel Valley
03/06/2012
More than 830 new miles of bikeways could be added to unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County - including several new dedicated bike paths in the San Gabriel Valley - under a 20-year plan approved by the Board of Supervisors last week....

Rosemead parks to receive new fitness upgrades
03/04/2012
ROSEMEAD - Mornings and evenings at Rosemead Park are bustling with activity as locals get their dose of exercise. Residents say the park is particularly popular because of the 1/2-mile all-weather walking trail and adjacent fitness equipment stations....

Shore Patrol: Plans progressing on the Chavez-Drake Greenway project
03/01/2012
In 2003, Long Beach announced plans to use a $6 million grant to purchase 7.27 acres of land along the Los Angeles River, linking Cesar E. Chavez Park with Drake Park to create a riverside greenway....

Deal In Works To Sell Will J. Reid Scout Park
February 28, 2012
A private nonprofit group, the Trust for Public Land, has signed a letter of intent to purchase the Will J. Reid Scout Park from the Long Beach Area Council of Boy Scouts....

Plans approved to use closed school site for a park in San Gabriel
02/24/2012
SAN GABRIEL - John Marshall Elementary School closed in June but the city has approved a plan for Marshall Community Park that will increase the park's area and public operation hours....

SGV board backs completion of Highway 39 to Wrightwood
02/19/2012
The San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments voted unanimously last week to oppose Caltrans' abandonment of 27 miles of Highway 39 from Azusa to Crystal Lake....

Monrovia Wilderness Preserve to open
02/17/2012
MONROVIA - Nearly 12 years after residents voted to save the hillsides from development, the City Council has cleared the way to open a 1,416-acre wilderness preserve to the public for the first time....

Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy close to La Vina land takeover agreement
02/14/2012
ALTADENA - Effectively ending years of bitter litigation over public access and open space issues, homeowners in the luxury 220-acre La Vina development have voted to transfer land surrounding the property to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy....

Steve Scauzillo: Former owner of 605 Duck Farm now a Paso Robles vintner
02/11/2012
I got an email this week from Papaduck86. He's Richard Woodland, the last owner of Woodland Farms, aka, the "infamously known" duck farm, a place you might recall by sight or, more likely, by pungent smell that stretched along the 605 Freeway in Bassett for 40 years....

Shore Patrol: Time for birdwatching at Los Cerritos Wetlands
01/20/2012
White-tailed kites, red-tailed hawks, northern shovelers, mallards, shore birds, songbirds, sparrows, herons and egrets. Exotic, some might say....

Montebello hills may soon be alive with bulldozers
01/06/2012
After starts and stops that included political drama and the restoration of hundreds of acres of rare-bird habitat, it looks like the development of the Montebello Hills Community may finally begin....

23 members of Congress support federal recreation area for San Gabriel Valley
12/21/2011
Twenty-three members of Congress this week signed a letter in support of creating a National Recreation Area within the San Gabriel Valley that would include the San Gabriel River, Angeles National Forest and Puente-Chino Hills....

The San Gabriel River: A River on the Edge
11/07/2011
"Do you have a copy of that river magazine?" is a question we still get a lot here at the San Gabriel Valley Newspapers. Readers, stakeholders, and opinion leaders remember the award-winning, 63-page special report from August 2000 entitled "The San Gabriel: A River on the Edge....

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