Los Angeles-based Washington Post reporter William Booth filed a good piece last week about Moe, the chimpanzee missing near Devore, but I'm guessing he got burned by the copy desk. "He's been out there, somewhere, in the rugged, brushy, snaky foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains west of Los Angeles since last Friday when he escaped from his cage," the story says (emphasis added.) The LA Observed reader on the East Coast who caught it emails: "That big thing west of Los Angeles is called the Pacific Ocean."

While in the neighborhood: Guy McCarthy, who newly blogs at the Watershed News, has posted a gallery of photos and a video from last week's Ridge fire near Yucaipa.