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Checkboard-mowed grass, human snow globes, river movies, tented classrooms. In 2020, the worst of times pushed designers to find offbeat solutions. 
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Local residents say they aren’t against hikers and people coming to the area for recreation. But after recent fires illustrated the potential problem of large numbers of people in the area du…
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As cities become more dense, finding new open space is proving a difficult task.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
The idea of un-cutting sections of city fragmented by freeways is intriguing. We might have asked why this wasn't done in the first place, but that would take us down a long and winding road.
Of the proposals that would seem to me to produce the most benefits, the Santa Monica proposal and the downtown LA proposal would seem to have the most bang for their buck.
Here is a link to the downtown (conceptual) proposal:
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Many people say they’d like to see more biodiversity in their city parks and gardens.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Surprise, surprise. If people aren't trained to see what is in front of their eyes, they see wildlife as a foreign language that is too complicated to decipher.
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PIRatE Lab's insight:
Ventura County Closures:
• City of Ventura: Parks, beach and pier closed. • Oxnard: Parks and beaches, including Ormond and Mandalay, temporarily closed this weekend. • Port Hueneme: Hueneme Beach, the pier and beach parking lots are closed. • County of Ventura: Parks and campgrounds, as well as it beachside RV parking areas, are closed. County trails are open. • Channel Islands Harbor: Parks and parking lots are closed; a temporary closure for beaches, including Hollywood, Silver Strand and Kiddie, over the weekend. • Ventura Harbor beaches, the public launch ramp and beach parking lots are closed. Parking along Spinnaker Drive also was expected to be prohibited. • California State Parks: All beaches and trailheads closed in Ventura County. The list includes Emma Wood, San Buenaventura State Beach, Mandalay, Mugu Beach, Chumash Trail, La Jolla Canyon, Sycamore Canyon, Sycamore Cove, County Line. McGrath was previously closed. • Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area: Trails closed on weekends in Ventura County. • Conejo Open Space Conservation District: Trails closed. • Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority: Trails closed.
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This Mount Washington walk offers serenity, silence and solitude -- even though it's right outside DTLA
PIRatE Lab's insight:
We have so many great, hard working open space and protected area agencies in Southern California it is amazing. While Los Angeles is still a wasteland compared to what we hard previously planned almost a century ago, we do have a surprising number of easy to get to areas for outdoor recreation and experiences. The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority, California State Parks, National Park Service, etc. all do their part to keep the 10s of millions of residents and visitors with more and more options in the "heart of the beast."
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NEW DELHI (AP) â€" A white tiger killed a young man who climbed over a fence at the New Delhi zoo and jumped into the animal's enclosure Tuesday, a spokesman said. Despite repeated warnings that he shouldn't get too close to the outdoor enclosure, the man eventually climbed over a knee-high fence, through some small hedges, then jumped down 18 feet into a protective moat, said National Zoological Park spokesman Riyaz Ahmed Khan. Groups of visitors may sometimes throw used plastic water bottles
PIRatE Lab's insight:
We are seem to be seeing these types of encounters more and more.
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LOS ANGELES >> A judge Thursday continued an injunction against the Whittier oil project but denied a petition to void the deal entirely between the city and its oil partners.The results of an hourlong appearance before Los Angeles Superi...
PIRatE Lab's insight:
They should have titled this "When Protected Areas Aren't Protected Areas: The Curious Case of the City of Whittier and the OIl Drillers
This saga is getting stranger and stranger. Use public dollars to buy lands that are then formally protected...until they have oil under them. Then screw the protection becasue you can make money. And I guess we are all supposed to only protect land when it doesn't have valuable consumable resrouces.
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