San Gabriel Mountains National Monument: 27 Monuments Stop #20

Williamson Rock
Williamson Rock in Angeles National Forest in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, CA.
USDA USFS photo.  April 10, 2009.
CC BY 2.0
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National Monuments in Danger

https://sites.google.com/view/nationalmonumentsindanger/home

We are down to the FINAL HOURS of the comment period!  Please, take the time today to comment on the fate of this national monument, any of the other 27 monuments on the Interior Department's list, or on the fate of all of them.  

To comment on the monument review process (due July 10, 2017):

https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=DOI-2017-0002-0001

So what do you do when you've posted on all 27 monuments?  You keep posting!  Brent Rose is getting close to being done, but I still haven't shared all of the excellent videos that he's made over the last few weeks.

StreetsBlogLA: SGV Connect 2 – President Trump and the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument (June 28, 2017)

http://la.streetsblog.org/2017/06/28/sgv-connect-2-president-trump-and-the-san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument/

San Gabriel Mountains National Monument Map (as of July 2017) - PDF

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5qJHnJC9HuAaHppdWhkcXJibmM/view

To comment on the monument review process (due July 10, 2017):

https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=DOI-2017-0002-0001

Links

Rubble - National Monuments in Danger:

San Gabriel Mountains National Monument

https://sites.google.com/view/nationalmonumentsindanger/the-27-monuments/san-gabriel-mountains

Los Angeles' Urban Oasis  (July 3, 2017)
http://rubble.blogspot.com/2017/07/san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument.html

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/NationalMonumentsInDanger


27 Monuments:

Website

https://www.27monuments.org

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/27Monuments

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/brentdangerrose
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/27monuments



USFS:

Official Website
https://www.fs.fed.us/visit/san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument

Map
https://www.fs.fed.us/recreation/sangabriel/san-gabriel-10-21-14.pdf

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Gabriel-Mountains-National-Monument/540883416043294

flikr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov/sets/72157648125774707


Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Gabriel_Mountains_National_Monument


Presidential Proclamation --  San Gabriel Mountains National Monument:
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/10/presidential-proclamation-san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument


Courthouse News Service: Unease as Trump Reviews San Gabriel Mountains National Monument (June 26, 2017)
http://www.courthousenews.com/uneasy-feelings-trump-reviews-san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument


San Gabriel Valley Tribune: 

San Gabriel Mountains National Monument under attack by Trump: Letters (June 26, 2017)
http://www.sgvtribune.com/opinion/20170626/san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument-under-attack-by-trump-letters

Here’s all the local cities that voted to support San Gabriel Mountains National Monument ahead of Trump review (June 1, 2017)
http://www.sgvtribune.com/environment-and-nature/20170601/heres-all-the-local-cities-that-voted-to-support-san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument-ahead-of-trump-review

National Monuments in Danger

https://sites.google.com/view/nationalmonumentsindanger/home

San Gabriel Mountains National Monument: Los Angeles' Urban Oasis

Los Angeles with San Gabriel Mtns
Los Angeles, CA in foreground with San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County, CA in background.
USDA USFS photo
CC by 2.0
https://flic.kr/p/pjNoUk

National Monuments in Danger

https://sites.google.com/view/nationalmonumentsindanger/home

We are down to the final days of the comment period!  Please, take the time today to comment on the fate of this national monument, any of the other 27 monuments on the Interior Department's list, or on the fate of all of them.  

To comment on the monument review process (due July 10, 2017):

https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=DOI-2017-0002-0001

This is the eighth monument managed by the U. S. Forest Service (USFS), and is comprised of sections of the Angeles National Forest and the San Bernardino National Forest (which also includes portions of Sand to Snow National Monument).  It was established by President Barack Obama on October 10, 2014.

As the USFS website states:

Soaring high above the Los Angeles Basin, the San Gabriel Mountains also are working lands that provide Angeleños 70 percent of their available open space and 30 percent of their drinking water. The monument serves as the backyard to the nation’s second-largest urban center.

The fact that this monument is right on top of Los Angeles is amazing and wonderful.  It is also one of the main reasons why I did not visit it in 2016.  I knew that it was there, but I didn't want to get that close in towards L. A.

However, I might have stopped by for a few photos if my original itinerary for last December held together and I ended up being able to visit Carrizo Plain National Monument and the Channel Islands National Park, but God had other plans for me on that trip, including a blown schedule, a new rig that I didn't want to test in traffic, and a desire for greater solitude.

From the Presidential Proclamation establishing the monument:

Known as the crown to the Valley of Angels, the peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains frame the Los Angeles skyline. Over 15 million people live within 90 minutes of this island of green, which provides 70 percent of the open space for Angelenos and 30 percent of their drinking water. Millions recreate and rejuvenate in the San Gabriels each year, seeking out their cool streams and canyons during the hot summer months, their snowcapped mountains in the winter, and their trail system and historic sites throughout the year.

The San Gabriels are some of the steepest and most rugged mountains in the United States. Situated adjacent to the mighty San Andreas Fault, the mountains are geologically active, migrating northwest at an average of 2 inches each year. Deep canyons, many with precious perennial streams, score the mountain peaks -- north toward the arid Mojave Desert and south to the temperate San Gabriel Valley.

It is amazing that a place like this exists so close to the second largest city in the United States, and I think that enough warrants every level of protection we can give it!

San Gabriel Valley Tribune: Here’s all the local cities that voted to support San Gabriel Mountains National Monument ahead of Trump review (June 1, 2017)

On Wednesday, the San Gabriel Mountains Community Collaborative, a 46-member body representing water producers, local governments, tribes, gun owners, hunters, hikers, cabin owners, off-road vehicle users, businesses and conservation groups submitted a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke supporting the monument as created by President Obama in October 2014.

The SGVCOG, a planning group made up of 31 cities, three supervisorial districts and several local water districts, passed a resolution on May 18 saying monument status protects archeological sites, rivers, 160 rare, threatened and endangered species as well as recreational amenities such as trails, picnic grounds, skiing runs and off-road racing areas used by 4 million visitors annually.  

http://www.sgvtribune.com/environment-and-nature/20170601/heres-all-the-local-cities-that-voted-to-support-san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument-ahead-of-trump-review

StreetsBlogLA: SGV Connect 2 – President Trump and the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument (June 28, 2017)

http://la.streetsblog.org/2017/06/28/sgv-connect-2-president-trump-and-the-san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument/

Courthouse News Service: Unease as Trump Reviews San Gabriel Mountains National Monument (June 26, 2017)

San Gabriel Mountains Forever had urged Obama to make the forest a national recreation area. U.S. Rep. Judy Chu, D-Los Angeles, introduced legislation that would have covered the entire Angeles National Forest, but Obama refused to go that far.

“Now they’re reviewing the monument it’s a good thing, because it would have looked like a land grab,” Erskine-Hellrigel said on the drive up Highway 210 to Cattle Canyon, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles. “We’re pretty happy and when it comes to all the monuments. I don’t think ours is on top of being tossed out.”

Cliff Hamlow, of the San Gabriel Valley Legislative Coalition of Chambers, representing business interests, also was confident. He pointed to the harmony between stakeholders and members of the San Gabriel Mountains Monument Collaborative.

“I think probably it’s low on the totem pole,” Hamlow said in a telephone interview.

The monument was already on federal land that is part of the National Forest, Hamlow said. It does not have the natural resources that have spurred protests over access from the oil and gas industry.

“There are only two or three ways into it, and I can’t see that business is going to move up the canyon at all. I don’t see it as being a place of business interests. I think it will be a place of natural resource interest and getting young people out of the inner city into a nature setting,” Hamlow said. 

http://www.courthousenews.com/uneasy-feelings-trump-reviews-san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument

San Gabriel Mountains National Monument Map (as of July 2017) - PDF

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5qJHnJC9HuAaHppdWhkcXJibmM/view

To comment on the monument review process (due July 10, 2017):

https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=DOI-2017-0002-0001

Links

Rubble - National Monuments in Danger:

San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
https://sites.google.com/view/nationalmonumentsindanger/the-27-monuments/san-gabriel-mountains

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/NationalMonumentsInDanger

USFS:

Official Website

https://www.fs.fed.us/visit/san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument

Map

https://www.fs.fed.us/recreation/sangabriel/san-gabriel-10-21-14.pdf

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Gabriel-Mountains-National-Monument/540883416043294

flikr

https://www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov/sets/72157648125774707

Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Gabriel_Mountains_National_Monument



Presidential Proclamation --  San Gabriel Mountains National Monument

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/10/presidential-proclamation-san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument

Courthouse News Service: Unease as Trump Reviews San Gabriel Mountains National Monument (June 26, 2017)

http://www.courthousenews.com/uneasy-feelings-trump-reviews-san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument

San Gabriel Valley Tribune: 

San Gabriel Mountains National Monument under attack by Trump: Letters (June 26, 2017)http://www.sgvtribune.com/opinion/20170626/san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument-under-attack-by-trump-letters

Here’s all the local cities that voted to support San Gabriel Mountains National Monument ahead of Trump review (June 1, 2017)

http://www.sgvtribune.com/environment-and-nature/20170601/heres-all-the-local-cities-that-voted-to-support-san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument-ahead-of-trump-review

National Monuments in Danger

https://sites.google.com/view/nationalmonumentsindanger/home

SnapJudgment: "The Finger"

An interesting or funny or interesting and funny story...  An old post from years ago that got lost in draft hell and was never published before...

The Finger by SnapJudgment on SoundCloud
http://soundcloud.com/snapjudgment/the-finger

A medical student loses his finger on a Caribbean island in the middle of a hurricane. Can his fellow med students get him to an airport, off the island and to a hospital in time to save his finger?  Produced by Rebecca Hertz.

http://snapjudgment.org/

Bjork: The fine line between brilliance and insanity… (Featuring “Cosmogony” as performed on The Colbert Report)

Note: Cross posted from Retrovirus Lab.

Permalink

Never quite sure which side she falls on…  First heard about her new project on Colbert last night. Just sharing my further look into what is going on in her world (which is very likely a slightly different and stranger world than our own)…

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Bjork
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive

CultureLab: Björk: I was always a bit of a nerd:

We are together to talk about Biophilia, Björk's new album and suite of smartphone apps that will combine science-themed songs with computer games that aim to teach music theory to the uninitiated, like me. "Music education's not as hard as people make it out to be, but it's been put on this pedestal for a chosen few," she says. It is for this reason that, like a modern-day Maria von Trapp, Björk is giving me an impromptu music lesson.

…

Biophilia, her most experimental project to date, looks set to divide opinion yet further. Its name - inspired by neurologist Oliver Sacks's book Musicophilia - evokes humankind's empathy with nature, which Björk has borne out with songs about genetics, crystallisation, plate tectonics and dark matter. The accompanying apps will be released in place of music videos, while the live shows have so far included a recorded voice-over by British naturalist David Attenborough, a live Tesla coil and four "gravity harps" suspended on 3-metre pendulums.

 

Bjork's Coder is Joining Her on Tour, But He Isn't Old Enough to Drink Yet | Motherboard:

You may know that Bjork is a big nerd, but you are not yet enough of a Bjork nerd to know that the developer behind some of her gorgeous new apps – the ones that constitute her Biophilia album – is only 20 years old. And yes, Max Weisel, who started making apps for the iPhone at 16 and designed the very wonderful and free Soundrop app, did that leave-school-and-run-to-California-to-launch-a-startup thing. For now though, he’s on the album tour, swiping iPad screens on stage behind Bjork, 26 years his senior.

I wondered who the fellow was playing the iPads in the performance below…

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Bjork - "Cosmogony"
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive

There is some interesting stuff going on here.  Unfortunately, I don’t have access to a platform to explore these apps, but I think this is very interesting and a potentially ground breaking direction for music to move towards…

There are a lot of demonstrations on Bjork’s YouTube channel.  I am going to be wasting some time today checking them out.

The album Biophilia is available in traditional formats as well. (Wow, things are moving fast for this old Luddite when I found myself, for the first time, refering to MP3 downloads as a traditional format. But it is also available on Vinyl, so I am absolved.)

Listen on Spotify: Bjork - Biophilia (13 Tracks)

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Listen to the first recording of human voices… (And the first daguerreotype of a human)

Note: Cross posted from Retrovirus Lab.

Spotted by William on Facebook (http://willigula.tumblr.com/), translation by Google…

The first record of voices in the world in 1860 - Anecdote of the Day:

It is generally accepted that Edison was the first to reproduce recorded sound, with the invention of the phonograph in 1877. The first sound recording has kept him took place in 1860 and we owe it to a French scholar, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville . Scott invented the phonautograph , a device to translate sound waves on a roll of paper coated with soot. The special feature of the device is that it could record the sounds but not to reproduce . Scott filed a patent in 1857 for the phonautograph.

Follow the link to hear the recordings… http://www.anecdote-du-jour.com/le-premier-enregistrement-de-voix-au-monde-date-de-1860/

A bonus for Rubble….

I’ll let William explain…

I guess this [recording] was discovered in 2008 but it was the first time I heard, or heard of it. Thirty years before Edison... a year before Lincoln was president! It's as haunting as Daguerre's first picture of a human (a fuzzy fellow standing on the corner in the lower left foreground), taken in 1838.

 

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Revisiting this on a tired morning as I edit a few pictures.

Steve Burns from Blue's Clues on The Moth Radio Hour

This is great.  Hour 402, segment one.


http://www.prx.org/pieces/60360

Flobots on eTown

I find this NPR show strangely annoying.  However, the Flobots were on the last show and their performance was really good.  So I tracked down the podcast and plan on giving it another listen.

eTown Radio Show 1119 – Flobots / Teddy Thompson

From eTown: Hosts Nick & Helen Forster welcome the dynamic, progressive, rap group Flobots back for this live eTown taping. Since they formed in 2003, they’ve combined music with discussion aimed at combating apathy and encouraging proactive, positive action. The Boston Herald calls this stellar six-piece band “rap music’s most singular breakthrough act in years.”