From salvaged architectural relics to a 100-year-old park and former industrial sites that have returned “back to nature,” here’s where you can explore the most unexpected outdoor gems of the South Bay.
Ornitherapy alights on April 24 and 25, 2021
$25 per person
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So many Southern Californians have sought to do just that since March 2020, when a saunter in the sunshine helped to provide people an aura of calm in an uncalm time.
Of course, we ve always been famously outdoorsy around these parts, thanks to boasting magnificent mountains, canyons, beaches, and a little bit of everything else in our leafy, craggy, sandy region.
It s a region that s full of feathery wonders, too, from scrub jays to crows to gulls to owls, too.
Welcome to The Wild!
The first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970. Nowadays, happenings are sprinkled throughout April and combined with other events, such as National Park Week. Many people (I’m one of them) believe that every day is Earth Day. So give some thought to how you want to mark the day because climate change is the defining environmental threat of our time. Here are eight events not to miss.
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1. President Biden and 40 world leaders will discuss climate change and you’re invited. In case you haven’t been following along, President Biden rejoined the Paris Agreement (a 2016 international treaty that seeks to limit global warming) on the first day he was in office. Later, Biden set a time for leaders to join him in an international summit “to galvanize efforts by the major economies to tackle the climate crisis,” according to a White House statement. That time is now. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, China’s President Xi Jinping