Author Archive: Jeff Johnson
Jeff Johnson
September 4, 2026
By Jeff Johnson If you were hiking with GLS in the mid-1990s, you may recall these interesting weekend hikes, as reported by long-time GLS leader Susan (Lucille) Campo in the May/June 1996 issue of GLS TRACKS. One of my very…
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Jeff Johnson
September 3, 2026
Trump reduces Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments by over 90%. By Tom Molloy The New York Times reported that Trump in July reduced the size of two National Monuments in Utah by nearly 3 million acres. Trump signed…
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Jeff Johnson
September 3, 2026
Sierra Club Members in Attendance: Jeff Johnson, Jen Dooley, Nancy Beverly, Tom Molloy, Jeff Bates Item 1 – 40th Anniversary Planning Item 2 – Long Beach walks Jen will co-lead the August and September walks. Next Meeting The next management…
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Jeff Johnson
September 3, 2026
Led by Nancy Beverly and Heidi Lennartz By Nancy Beverly For our easy Franklin Canyon jaunt, we met early to beat the heat — August had been a scorcher. Forecasters had predicted August 30 to be “only” 90 degrees at…
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Jeff Johnson
September 3, 2026
By Jeff Johnson Recent news has been full of disastrous floods and debris flows. Reading the local news farther down the page, you may have noticed articles and videos about less drastic high water threatening coastal Long Beach. Our most…
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Jeff Johnson
July 3, 2026
What’s Happening at the Environmental Protection Administration? by Tom Molloy Buried in the avalanche of regular news on the environmental degradation wrought by the Trump regime is the story of the how the Environmental Protection Administration has been cancelling safety…
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Jeff Johnson
July 3, 2026
Led by Nancy Beverly and Leslie Brygart by Nancy Beverly We’d been having a lot of June gloom lately, but luckily the weather gods were with us for our sunset moonrise hike up Westridge on June 27. There was so…
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Jeff Johnson
July 3, 2026
Some reader reader responses at the bottom of the article. by Jeff Johnson This question came up inside GLS a few years ago. We notified subscribers of a survey about the name of the group in the July/August 2020 issue…
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Jeff Johnson
July 3, 2026
Led by Jeff Johnson and Nancy Beverly story and photos by Jeff Johnson This hike was on various trails and use trails in parkland south of Woodland Hills, adjacent to the Santa Monica Mountains. The trails all show up on…
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Jeff Johnson
July 3, 2026
Led by Jennifer Dooley and Mary Pickert by Nancy Beverly Three Points to Cloudburst Summit has become one of my fav hikes — thank you, Jen for leading it again, and thank you, Mary, for sweeping. It turned out to…
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