Archive: Foothills

Trail cams placed by Robert Martinez catch a mother and three cubs in the mountains above Glendora.

This weekend's fire in Los Angeles isn't even the worst La Tuna Canyon fire in recent times.

Bear playing in the swimming pool in Bradbury during Sunday's heat.

Just in time, perhaps, because rail ridership is dropping in Los Angeles, not rising.

Robert Martinez's cameras stationed in the mountains above Glendora captured two more feeding lions — in color this time.

The Republican who goes back to the original community college board in LA wants to follow 36 years on the Board of Supervisors with a term on the state Senate.

The Los Angeles News Group's printed guide to the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl calls the famous Pasadena stadium the "L.A. Coliseum."

Drought gardener and blogger Emily Green wants people to remember that they need to deep-water their trees or the drought can have a worse effect than necessary.

Robert Martinez's camera above Glendora captures family of cougars in the daylight — followed by a night visitor.

Bloomberg Businessweek examines the latest influx of Chinese capital to transform a corner of the San Gabriel Valley.

This fan palm is trying to poke out of a storm drain in Altadena. Click to see it bigger.

Fifteen minutes in a Sierra Madre swimming pool then back to the forest. Watch the video.

Firefighters in and around Glendora stayed on the line tonight to fight the fire that began about 6 a.m. Thursday near homes in the San Gabriel Mountains foothills.

The Natural History Museum's entomology people give the intriguing details. "Some ant decapitating flies, like zombie hunters, aim for the head..."

Mountain lion photographed during the day in the San Gabriels. More on Griffith Park's P-22. And it's tarantula mating season, so step lively.

They take their time about it and appear to be settling in for a long night or perhaps two. Robert Martinez sure has a knack for putting his trail cameras in the right place.

Forget P-23. Robert Martinez's trail camera caught a lion stashing a newly killed deer just minutes before he got there. His cams have caught local cougars, bears, foxes and more — but this time, he says, "I'm almost certain I was being watched."

Fox 11 News in Los Angeles reported that its investigative reporter and producer Martin Burns was the hiker who died Sunday in a hiking accident in the foothills above Altadena.

Another California black bear comes down into a foothills backyard, this time in Arcadia. Sure looks right at home. Bigger pic inside.

Deputies responded to a report of a bear roaming inside a vacant house. The report proved to be true.

The easy trail hike to Eaton Canyon's lower falls above Pasadena isn't the problem. It's the climb off-trail up to the upper falls where people slip and fall.

When the Los Angeles Fire Department puts up its red flag, thousands who live in the city's hillsides and canyons are affected. Move your car off the streets in posted areas, or risk an expensive ticket and possibly get towed.

"If budget considerations improve, JPL hopes to host an Open House at a future date, perhaps as early as fall 2013," the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said.

Justin Lee heard his dog barking madly and rushed downstairs to come face to face with a brownish California black bear inside his Monrovia home. He grabbed the dog, ran back upstairs and called 911.

Our summer of urban wildlife encounters continues. On Sunday morning, a black bear roamed down out of the Angeles National Forest to briefly disrupt traffic on the 210 freeway and put a scare into soccer players on the field at Crescenta Valley High School.

That smoke tower you probably see if you are in the Los Angeles area is from a brush fire that broke out this afternoon in the San Gabriel Mountain foothills above Azusa. Looks to be a bit of pyrocumulus action happening at the top of the plume. By about 5 p.m. the fire had swept across 700 acres, authorities told the media.

Cool local Altadena story. An old stone grave marker for Owen Brown, the son of Civil War abolitionist John Brown, had been missing from its old spot in the Altadena hills for a decade or so, under mysterious circumstances involving a development dispute. It was found recently by artist Ian White, who got in touch with the Paul Ayers of Save the Altadena Trails to help relocate the marker.

The Glendale black bear incurred his third strike and has already been taken to an animal sanctuary in San Diego County. Plus: nice video of a young white shark and a humpback whale in the Pacific off Orange County.

Sheriff's at the La Crescenta station say a resident in the Briggs Terrace area this morning reported the bear with the orange ear tag, presumably the one spotted earlier this year in the Glendale area. The Glendale bear could be getting closer to exile to Colorado.

A brown bear that was reported hit by a car Sunday morning on Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada-Flintridge was located later in the afternoon behind a Starbucks. Fish and Game officials tranquilized the bear after it climbed a tree, but they said later that its injuries called for euthanasia.

The company is in talks to build out a Walmart Neighborhood Market on North Lincoln Avenue for opening early in 2013.

Prosecutors allege that former Glendale city councilman John Drayman embezzled between $304,000 and $880,000 from the weekly farmers market in Montrose, and filed false tax returns that did not reflect his true income.

A Department of Fish and Game warden called to the scene of a mountain lion near homes in Sunland shot and killed the animal last Friday. DFG officials told KTLA the warden felt shooting the animal was necessary to keep the neighborhood safe.

Equestrians of the northeast Valley will ride Sunday in memory of Bert Bonnett, a legend in the horsey communities of Shadow Hills and Sunland.

City Councilman Paul Krekorian's latest emailed newsletter got my attention, and not for any of the headlines or stories.

Volunteers have restrung most of the the wind-damaged lights on Altadena's traditional Christrmas Tree Lane and say they will flip the switch on Saturday at 6 p.m. — as scheduled before last week's freak wind event.

What's that, half a million people in the Los Angeles metropolitan area bedding down for a second night without electricity?

Princeton University junior Andrew Blumenfeld won the final seat on the La Cañada Unified school board by ten votes.

A La Cañada High math teacher accused of calling a student "Jew boy,'' using other slurs and mocking a student's stutter will receive sensitivity training.

A black bear was spotted on the grounds of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory early this morning.

Dan Evans, the editor of the Times Community News papers in the foothills, and Donna Evans, the editor of La Canada Flintridge Patch, are married and their publications compete for news and readers. They just want you to know that.