Recent wildfires in Sequoia National Park have highlighted the need for leadership from local tribes, like the Tule River Tribe of California, to be involved in firefighting efforts to protect delicate ecology and significant historic and cultural sites.
In the late 1800s, logging and grazing in the San Gabriel Mountains threatened the irrigation-based societies in the valley. President Harrison had a solution. Reserving 555,520 acres of the San Gabriel Mountains, effectively creating Angeles National Forest.
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