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Biolite FirePit takes the smoke out of the campfire

  • October 25, 2017
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Biolite’s new FirePit smoke-less wood burning firepit doubles as a habachi grill.
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Watch SoCal’s nesting California condors live

  • October 6, 2017
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YouTube viewers can now watch the intimate social activities of a family of California’s biggest bird.
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National Park Service rogues establish alt Twitter feed to resist Trump

  • January 25, 2017
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The shootout started in the Badlands — how appropriate. After the Trump administration put a gag order on the National Park Service earlier this week, forbidding them to communicated with…
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Joshua Tree National Park getting “loved to death”

  • January 23, 2017
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In 2016, more than 2.5 million people visited the park, which is more than 500,000 than visited the park in 2015, resulting in packed campgrounds, long entrance lines and full parking lots.
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It’s not a snowboard, it’s a subscription: Signal launches snowboard subscription service

  • January 19, 2017
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SoCal’s Signal Snowboards has a track record of coming up with attention grabbing ideas — their transparent board comes to mind. Continuing that tradition, in November the snowboard manufacturer announced the…
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Black Mountain Open Space Park trail close due to arsenic

  • January 9, 2017
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A portion of the north side of San Diego’s Black Mountain Open Space Park was closed last Friday after city officials found high levels of arsenic around an abandon mine.…
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Iconic California “tunnel tree” felled by brute storm

  • January 9, 2017
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When the weather reports said a really big storm was headed for California, they meant a storm strong enough to fell one of the most iconic trees in the world.…
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Law mobilizes volunteer force to fix crumbling US Forest Service trails

  • December 5, 2016
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It ain’t exactly the New Deal for trail infrastructure, but a new federal law seeks to mobilize volunteers around the country to help maintain the nation’s wilderness routes. The law,…
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Recreation passes required in parts of SoCal national forests

  • November 29, 2016
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Looks like it’s pay to play again (and not just on tax day). As of September 2016, visitors to certain fee sites in southern California national forests will need to…
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