8 Top Hiking Trails in Southern California 2024 nazret.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nazret.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
This Young HIker Singlehandedly Cleaned Up Eaton Canyon backpacker.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from backpacker.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It was mid-March 2020, and I was on edge while driving toward the entrance of Eaton Canyon Natural Area, a small slice of creek-fed greenspace that spills from the foot of Southern California’s San Gabriel Mountains into the suburban sprawl located just below.
A morning hike is not my typical cause for anxiety, of course. But there was this burgeoning pandemic, you see, and I was about to join a friend for a stroll along what is arguably one of the most popular trails in all of Los Angeles County. The 3.5-mile round-trip Eaton Canyon Trail ends at a slim waterfall that pours into a placid swimming hole. It’s the stuff of every dog’s, child’s, and Instagrammer’s delight.
The Majority of Wild Edible Plants in the U.S. Are Endangered
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All of our crops have naturally-occurring predecessors that are found in the wild. But that may not be the case for long. A new study found that those OG edible plants are doing badly.
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The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, show that 96% of wild relatives of agricultural crops in the U.S. could be facing an urgent or high need for conservation. The research suggests that based on vulnerability standards from the International Union for Conservation of Nature, just over 7% of them are critically endangered in their natural habitats, 50% are endangered, and 28% are vulnerable.