Erin Rode

1 week ago | sfgate.com | Erin Rode

Entering Lacy Park on a recent Saturday felt like I was getting away with something. Typically, my Los Angeles ZIP code would prevent me from visiting the public park in the wealthy suburb of San Marino — unless I was willing to pay. For decades, the city of about 12,000 people northeast of downtown Los Angeles has charged nonresidents to visit its park on the weekends. The admission fee is currently $4 per person.

1 week ago | sfgate.com | Erin Rode

In December, the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health contracted with the Texas-based nonprofit Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue to rescue and relocate wild burros from an unincorporated canyon landscape tucked into the hills just north of Moreno Valley in California’s Inland Empire. The contract was routine for Mark Meyers, executive director of Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue.

2 weeks ago | ecotopical.com | Erin Rode

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2 weeks ago | hechingerreport.org | Erin Rode

LOS ANGELES — After the Palisades Fire destroyed her son’s high school, Shoshanha Essakhar found herself among the thousands of Los Angeles County parents wondering what to do. “I was thinking, ‘Oh my God, we’re going to be doing Zoom for the next God knows how long,’” said Essakhar. “It was a lot of fear, a lot of uncertainty.”The fire devastated , where Essakhar’s son was a ninth grader, as well as two elementary schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

2 weeks ago | kcra.com | Erin Rode

A memo from the secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture released last week outlines the Trump administration’s plans to quickly expand logging operations in the country’s national forests, which could dramatically reshape the landscape of popular recreation areas in California.A month after President Donald Trump released an executive order calling for the “immediate expansion of American Timber Production,” USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins has laid out what steps the U.S....