Latest New Links And New Pages
New Links 12/27/00
Robert N. Fisher's and Ted J. Case's A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Coastal Southern California (nathist/animals)
12/26/00
Lizzies Trail Inn Historical Museum (places/mt. wilson)
12/23/00
Ode to Poison Oak (varmints)
Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, and Poison Sumac Treatment (varmints)
12/8/00
The California Reader's Chaparral: An Elfin Forest (plants/index; nathist / animals)
12/8/00
Montrose Search and Rescue Team
11/28/00
John McPhee's The Control of Nature: Los Angeles Against The Mountains-1
Susan Wolven's The Bridge To Nowhere
Virginia Tech's Weed Identification Guide (plants/databases)
Southern California Fishing Hot Page (activities/fishing)
11/23/00
Reny Parker's Wildflowers (plants/index/photos)
Photographs Of Wildflowers Of Southern California (added new desert pix to plants/index/photos) Puente Hills (Field Guide / neighboring areas)
11/22/00
Acton (conditions/weather)
11/12/00
Chapter 1: The River as It Once Was from THE LOS ANGELES RIVER: Its Life, Death, And Possible Rebirth, by Blake Gumprecht
11/11/00
Pasadena Audubon Society's Arroyo Southwestern Toad
Specimen MAnagement System for California Herbaria (plants/databases)
GORP's Trails Database for the Angeles National Forest (24 trails) (unindexed hikes)
11/9/00
Sam Hartsfield's Chilao to Horse Flats and Mt. Hillyer via Silver Moccasin Trail (regions/chilao)
11/8/00
Anderson, Jachens and Woolfenden: Structural Model of the San Bernardino Strike-Slip Basin, Southern California, from Regional Gravity Data (natural history / geology)
D. Harrison's Lytle Creek Trek (unindexed hikes)
10/23/00
HADD - Hikers Against Doo-Doo (bugs)
10/19/00
150' Solar Tower Telescope History
10/7/00
Mike Jacoubowsky's Killer Squirrels Take on Cyclists! (bugs)
9/11/00
Sudden Oak Death from UC Cooperative Extension in Marin County.
9/3/00
Etreking.com's San Gabriel Mountains
8/23/00
Mt. Waterman Ski Patrol (activities/winter sports)
8/13/00
Alex Wolf's Hikes and Campouts
DesertMud's Hiking
So Cal Hikers (all 3 added to unindexed hikes)
8/5/00
Mountain Lion Foundation (lists/lion attacks)
8/1/00
Forest Service in the News: Pacific Southwest (Region 5): California from Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics (lists/news)
7/31/00
Free-ranging Dogs. (faq / dogs)
Kevin Crook's Tabby Go Home (Field Guide / Natural History / Animals)
Cats, Dogs & Wildlife from Native Species Network (Field Guide / Natural History / Animals)
7/26/00
Mt. Wilson Private Land For Sale (places)
7/24/00
Lang Brod's Errors In The Suunto Compass
7/21/00
Dictionary of Botanical Epithets (plants/unlabeled links)
The Valentien Watercolor Project (plants/california plant databases)
The California Oak Report: Deadly Disease Devastates Oaks (plants/oaks)
New information - Elevated Mortality of Tanoak and Coast Live Oak in Coastal California from University of California Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program, UC Berkeley. (plants/oaks)
7/17/00
Current Snow Coverage by elevation ranges in California and Nevada from the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (conditions/weather)
7/15/00
Oak Flat Trail (by Jerry Schad) (trails)
Monrovia Canyon Falls (by Jerry Schad)
7/14/00
Pasadena Group Outings (lists/organized hikes)
6/20/00
See links at California Oaks and California Plant Pictures and Databases
6/18/00
C. Rocco's West Coast Native Tree ID (plants/keys)
6/16/00
Map of Ozone for greater L.A. area, including the SGM and San Bernardinos (conditions/air quality)
6/10/00
Jerry Schad's Visit the "Bridge to Nowhere" (18May00, from the San Diego Reader Roam-A-Rama)
6/6/00
Russell Bell's:
(in trails)Romantic hikes: Eaton Saddle to Inspiration Point (11Feb99), Shawn Price
5/31/00
San Dimas Experimental Forest Flora List by Dick Swinney (Field Guide / nathist / plants/ index)
Colleen Gino's Mt. Wilson Wildflowers
5/29/00
Bear Necessities (Field Guide / conditions / bugs)
5/27/00
Jane Strong's:
- The Natural History of the San Gabriel Mountains (Field Guide / nathist)
- Maps of the San Gabriel Mountains (Field Guide / maps)
- Relief Maps of the San Gabriel Mountains (Field Guide / topo maps)
5/23/00
Russell Bell's Burnt Peak Trail (TOTA98 updates / hike #3 and links/3) and Hiking the Gillette Mine Trail (TOTA98 updates / hike #2 and links/2)
5/6/00
Cliff Schmidt's Ceanothus key and descriptions
5/3/00
The San Diego Natural History Museum's Plants - includes plant lists for San Diego County and wildflower reports. (conditions / blooms / elsewhere)
4/22/00
GPS Accuracy for Plotting Trails for Little Jimmy to Windy Gap and Mt. Hawkins
Position accuracy achievable with the DGPS beacon receiver and the Garmin GPS12
Plants Blooming Now on the Santa Rosa Plateau
Carrizo Plain Natural Area, Godwin Education Center
BLM site for all of CA with specific locations and numbers to call for updates.
CNPS Great Wildflowers Discussion Board
4/21/00
Ticks Commonly Encountered In California by Larisa Vredevoe (bugs)
Poison Oak - A Plant To Avoid by Robert Smith (bugs)
Poison Oak FAQ by Manuel Davis (bugs)
San Gorgonio Volunteer Association's Trail Conditions in the San Gorgonio Wilderness (conditions/trails)
4/5/00
The Antelope Valley Poppy Page (other wildflower locations)
3/31/00
Bob Dollins' Mt. San Antonio and Echo Mountain. (unindexed hikes)
3/27/00
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Photos (images showing topography of the SGM) (lists/pix)
Deformation and Geologic History, North of the San Andreas Fault, between Valyermo and Cajon Valley, in the North-Eastern San Gabriel Mountains, California: Quaternary Deformation Produced by a Subsurface Restraining Bend in the San Andreas Fault? by Miles Kenney, Ray Weldon II (natural history/geology)
San Gabriel 50 km Ultramarathon (Field Guide / activities / running)
3/26/00
Buckhorn Ski Club (Field Guide / activities / winter sports)
3/24/00
Manker Flat to San Antonio Falls (links/91-2)
3/22/00
Matt Maxon's Trails of the Verdugo Foothills (trails)
3/10/00
See links in Four-Wheel Driving (Field Guide / activities/ 4wd)
Bing's Angeles National Forest Off-Road in the Snow (activities/winter)
3/8/00
Angeles Volunteer Association. (new url; Field Guide/general)
3/7/00
Carl Lambrecht's Hiking in Southern California
3/6/00
John Robinson's Hiking Above Los Angeles: Buckhorn to Cooper Canyon (writeup from Trails of the Angeles hosted by GORP) (links/62)
Amanda K. Erickson's Cooper Canyon non-hike due to snow closure (17May98) (links/62)
3/5/00
Many of the links in Mt. Wilson
3/1/00
San Dimas Canyon Nature Center (updated url; places and family hikes)
3/1/00
Sandberg (on Bald Mountain next to Liebre Mountain, ~4500') current weather and latest 24 hour weather (conditions/weather)
San Dimas Canyon Nature Center (places and family hikes)
Claremont Wilderness Park (places and family hikes)
2/29/00
Mt. Wilson current weather and latest 24 hour weather (conditions/weather)
Ontario Airport current weather and latest 24 hour weather (conditions/weather)
2/25/00
Big Rock Creek Camp (places)
Virtual Field Geology from CSU Long Beach: St. Francis Dam Disaster, Palmdale Road Cut, and Cajon Pass (nathist/geology)
2/24/00
James P. McCalpin's Ridgetop Splitting, Spreading, and Shattering Related to Earthquakes in Southern California (interesting work on the origins of closed depressions, troughs, and scarps on top of ridges in the SGM) (nathist/geology)
2/23/00
Climate of Los Angeles (downloadable 300 kB of a very up-to-date, readable summary of L.A.'s climate written by the National Weather Service) (nathist/climate)
2/22/00
Los Angeles River: Friends (places)
Trails or Roads? (trails/bulldozing)
2/21/00
Pine Mountain Club-Mt. Pinos Web Cam (Pine Mountain, Mt. Pinos, ~5500', ~20 miles west of Tejon Pass) (to webcams)
Frazier Park School Weather Cam (~4600', 6 miles west of Castaic Lake) (to webcams)
Review of Historic Rainstorms in California (rainfall records set in San Gabriels) (nathist/weather)
Tom Gilfoy's letter to the Forest Service (trails/bulldozing)
2/20/00
Forest Pest Conditions in California - 1996: Insects (plants/index)
ANF Official website's ANF Map (general/maps)
Mt. Baldy over downtown L.A. - Downtown Los Angeles picture at Los Angeles Photos (pix index)
New Or Changed Pages 12/31/00
Accuracy of Tracks From a Garmin Etrex GPS Receiver: Measured Vs. Waypoints
12/30/00
Mileages for Chantry Flat Trails (analysis)
Trails from Chantry Flat (trails)
Accuracy of Trail Mileages Deduced From Topo! Measurements (analysis)
11/14/00
Updates to Afoot & Afield in Los Angeles County 2000 edition
9/6/00
Severity of Bugs Vs. Time plot explained in bugs.
9/4/00
Angeles Crest Highway (places)
7/2/00
Waterman - Twin Peaks Trail (trails)
7/18/00
Penstemons (plants/keys)
7/16/00
Pacific Crest Trail, San Gabriel Mountains
6/20/00
6/19/00
California Plant Pictures and Databases
6/17/00
5/28/00
Links for Hikes #13, 16-4, and 16-5: Angeles Crest Highway or Big Tujunga to Grizzly Flat
5/25/00
Angeles Crest Highway (SR2) Road Guide
5/22/00
George Aumann's GPS Accuracy for Plotting Trails Post-SA
5/21/00
Millard Canyon to Millard Falls
5/7/00
Keys to Identifying Sumacs in the SGM
5/2/00
Keys to Identifying Selected Plant Groups in the SGM (for pines and ceanothus)
4/23/00
Ben Overturff Trail (added history of tpl purchase)
4/22/00
Islip Saddle to Windy Gap, Mt. Hawkins, Throop Peak, Mt. Baden-Powell, Vincent Gap (added page to include second link)
4/21/00
Fees (updated info; added more links, legal status, disposition of collected money, more negative implications)
4/5/00
3/30/00
Field Guide: Places: Rubio Canyon
Pictures of Rubio Canyon Destruction on 5/29/99
3/11/00
Snow Levels vs. Time (added page to explain plot)
3/11/00
USGS 7.5' Topo Maps For the SGM (added caveat about usgs date errors)
3/6/00 and 3/7/00
Numbering of Trails and Secondary Forest Roads in Angeles National Forest
3/5/00
2/28/00
Numbering of Secondary Forest Roads in Angeles National Forest
2/23/00
2/21/00
Books (Frommer guide)
Fees (dates of extension of expiration)
2/20/00
News (Nov. 30)
Numbers (oldest rocks in California)
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Updated 20 January 2001 (a few links updated on 8 April 2003).
