Subject: Cleveland National Forest

• Does a Bear Shit in the LA Times?

  If you read Monday's Los Angeles "By God" Times Business section (and why would you?), you might've choked on your French Roast when you came on C3's three-quarter page advert announcing the California Bear is missing from the state flag. The gloomy gray gus informed that the Grizzly "grew tired of special elections and old promises," that it "went into hibernation waiting for progress to alleviate high taxes and high business costs," that "changes were too few and too slow." Make no mistake, B

  January 24, 2006

• FOX News Covers the OC Fire (BADLY)

  Here's a repost from Weekly contributor Joel Beers' MySpace blog. Title: FUCK YOU FOX NEWS: "Even the local station is staffed by mental incompetents. Like the dumb as dirt field "reporter" in Modjeska Canyon (at least she got that right) who says if the fire gets past the residential neighborhoods it borders the "Angeles Forest." It's the Cleveland National Forest, you stupid git. But that's nothing compared to how she ends her "report." As the camera pans a scorched landscape, she solemly

  October 23, 2007

• Beach Blanket Stinko

  May 6, 1999

• Year in Review

  January 4, 2001

• Aint No Mountian Low Enough

  February 8, 2001

• 2002: Diary of a Mad Year

  January 2, 2003

• Tunnel Vision

  July 31, 2003

• Hasan Nouri Pitched Plans to Stabilize Aliso Creek and His Native Afghanistan, But No One Listened

  December 11, 2008

• Great Pork

  May 16, 2002

• Busybody

  Mike Sager peeks in on the lives of our times

  December 20, 2007

• The Fire of the Century . . . of the Year

  Hellish fires now, Sahara Desert later, says UCI doom prophet Mike Davis

  November 1, 2007

• Saloons and Such

  Watering holes, bars, dance halls, houses of ill repute, whiskey, wine, tequila, whiskey, whiskey, beer, whiskey, whiskey & also whiskey

  September 20, 2007

• On the Range

  Ridin’, ropin’, rasslin’ & other games of skill & contests of  strength, blazing trails, seeing sights &, of course, Anteaters

  September 20, 2007

• The Anus of Aliso Viejo

  April 1, 1999

• Trestles Tussle

  The TCA’s expansion plans spark renewed activism

  June 7, 2007

• No Sweat

  May 18, 2006

• A Toast for the Yost

  February 16, 2006

• San Juan Capistrano

  October 20, 2005

• A Clockwork Orange

  October 13, 2005

• No Mo Moiso

  March 31, 2005

• Next Stop: Immobility

  An A to Z Guide to Surviving the Death/Pause/Sunshine of the CenterLine

  February 17, 2005

• The Closing Of The Orange County Frontier

  December 30, 2004

• True Men Dont Kill Coyotes

  December 23, 2004

• A Win-Lose Solution

  November 25, 2004

• Best of OC 2004: Part 2

  October 21, 2004

• The War at Home

  September 2, 2004

• The Wild One

  July 29, 2004

• Road to Victory

  February 5, 2004

• Grin and Ferret

  January 8, 2004

• Buying Woodstock

  Is Ladera Ranch the green revolution or the same development crap in a new package?

  December 11, 2003

• The Darkish Side

  November 27, 2003

• Best Politics, Art, and Outdoor Sports

  October 30, 2003

• On the Outside Looking In

  September 18, 2003

• Hillside Strangers

  December 19, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  November 14, 2002

• No Escape

  May 30, 2002

• No Matter Who Wins, We Do

  August 23, 2001

• Cry Baby Beach

  May 31, 2001

• Please, God, Let This Be the Last One

  April 26, 2001

• Year in Review

  January 4, 2001

• The Year in Bits:July - December

  January 4, 2001

• Burning Sensation

  September 28, 2000

• Ketchup Time

  September 21, 2000

• Eat Cheap

  March 16, 2000

• Tree Huggers Ball

  June 18, 2009

• To Do This Weekend 6/19-6/21

  Tree Huggers Ball and Go Green Expo, Saturday, 6 p.m.Canyon Land Conservation Fund works year-round to preserve the last of the wilderness within OC's Cleveland National Forest, so check out this hip eco-outfit and arrange a romantic summer evening at the Fifth Annual Tree Hugger's Ball, hosted by groovy canyon folk who are stewards of this land. They'll serve dinner under the stars and the oak canopy, complete with dancing and, yes, exhibitors of eco-friendly products to make everybody smart a

  June 19, 2009

• Crime Time: Move Over, Trendzilla!

  The must-have fashion accessory of the season for robbers in Irvine and San Juan Capistrano.It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of Orange County police calls . . . TUESDAY, JUNE 16Forest Firebug is a Pot Farm Exposer to Boot: Seven fires were ignited within a short distance of each other in Trabuco Canyon. A serial firebug may be responsible as four other fires had been lit in the same general area of Cleveland National Forest over the past four weeks. The latest led to a brush fire that brought o

  June 23, 2009

• Outdoor Marijuana Eradication Called "Costly," "Futile"

  ​A sheriff's helicopter was chugging over Cleveland National Forest, about 15 miles off Ortega Highway, three years and one month ago when the pilot spotted a vast marijuana field. Deputies on the ground later confirmed--and cut down--about 1,000 young plants that had been thriving thanks to an elaborate irrigation system. You'd imagine the men and women in  uniform hoisted a few of their favorite legal consumables that night to celebrate a job well done.But with cannabis legalization eff

  July 28, 2009

• Want to Find Crime? Go to Church

  Here's lookin' at ya!Forget the barrios, Harbor Boulevard and potential marijuana fields of Cleveland National Forest. If Orange County law enforcement wants to find illegal activity, they should go to church. Insert your favorite Catholic Diocese of Orange reference here. Then, take a look at what's been going on at Compass Bible Church in Aliso Viejo and St. Joseph's Church in Placentia. Better yet, if its St. Joseph, look for blood stains in the parking lot.

  September 24, 2009

• Don Bren's Gift That Keeps On Taking Public Money (or Trying to, Anyway)

  November 5, 2009