Palos Verdes-South Bay Sierra Club
Category: Along the Path
What did I see? What did I smell?: The Lives of Darkling Beetles
What’s that dark, shiny thing crawling under the buckwheat?
Read MoreThe Island Fox: The Little Mammal with the Big Job
A distinct subspecies of island fox developed on each of six California Channel Islands. Photo: Santa Cruz Island Foxes. Paul Blieden
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California Fires: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Some conifers need fire to propagate, but climate change makes fires too frequent and destructive.
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Native bees are much more efficient than honey bees because they have evolved with native flowers.
Read MoreAlong the Path: The Wisdom of the Sages
Our local coastal sage scrub is more than just pretty and fragrant. Sage and sagebrush were important for food and medicine to the Tongva, the indigenous people of the South Bay.
Read MoreOur Window into the Marine World: Tidepools
Without scuba gear we can explore the marine world in tidepools.
Read MoreHabitat, Habitat, Have to Have a Habitat…
Coastal sage scrub is one of the most threatened habitats in the country.
Read MoreLand and Sea Is the Life for Me:
Northern elephant seals spend up to 86% of their time at sea submerged, taking dives of 20-25 minutes on average.
Read MoreClose Encounters of the Wild Kind
Photographer Bev Gates chanced upon this fox in Palos Verdes Estates.
Read MoreTrees Please, Pt. 2: Above Ground
Trees provide shade and evaporative air conditioning. Plus, they are essential in battling climate change.
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Along the Path: Our Prickly Neighbors and Their Friends
An introduction to the cacti down the street
Read MoreAlong the Path: A Young Person’s Guide to Exploring Nature – Music in the Air
By Susan Rothrock Deo …
Read MoreAlong the Path — Nature Close to Home: Entertaining and Enlightening
Story and Photos By Susan Rothrock Deo Greetings from the depths of our “Corona Spring.” None of us can predict what things will look like by the time you read this newsletter. We can only practice our best social distancing…
Read MoreAlong the Path: A Wonderful Bird is the Pelican
By Susan Rothrock Deo A Wonderful Bird Is the Pelican/ His bill can hold more than his belican. [from a limerick by Dixon Lanier Merritt] We watch them floating in formation along the coast, or they watch us…
Read MoreThe Wanderer with Purpose
Along the Path: A Young Person’s Guide to Exploring Nature By Susan Rothrock Deo I love to go a-wandering/ Along the mountain track/ And as I go, I love to sing/ My knapsack on my back. Do you like to…
Read MoreAlong the Path: Soaring Free – The Red Tailed Hawk
By Susan Rothrock Deo (Soaring hawk photo by Ashok Khosla) “Keee. Keeeee.” The shrill call pierced the air. Three red tailed hawks soared over the canyon, their pale, brick-red tails glinting like stained glass….
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A Young Person’s Guide to Exploring Nature By Susan Rothrock Deo How Did THAT Get There: Pt. 2: Animals The first time I heard a peacock, we were visiting my husband’s family in India. Their calls here in Palos Verdes…
Read MoreSusan Deo Wins Conservation Award
At the Angeles Chapter Awards Banquet in May, Susan Deo received a Conservation Service Award for her popular Foggy View column, “Along the Path.” Congratulations, Susan!
Read MoreAlong the Path: How Did THAT Get Here?
Part I: Plants By Susan Rothrock Deo Do you have dandelions in your yard? Most grownups call them weeds because they grow where we don’t want them. We kids know better—dandelions are AWESOME! Pretty yellow flowers, puffy heads of floating…
Read MoreAlong the Path/ Wild Cucumber: One Craz-zy Wild Plant!
By Susan Rothrock Deo Don’t you just love the surprises that come out of the ground after a few good rains here in Southern California? I’m especially fond of the native plants in my yard or along the trails, but…
Read MoreAngeles Chapter Awards Banquet
Honoring 2018 Awardees (including the Foggy View’s own Susan Rothrock Deo!) SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019, noon to 4:00 p.m. Long Beach Scottish Rite Event Center
Read MoreAlong the Path: Leapin’ Lizards!
By Susan Rothrock Deo Every time I see a lizard, I can’t help watching it. I’m not alone. Some people even become herpetologists, scientists who study reptiles (like lizards and snakes) and amphibians (like frogs and salamanders). Reptiles are vertebrates:…
Read MoreAlong the Path: Hummingbirds, the Fastest Thing on Wings
By Susan Rothrock Deo Hummer! I recognized the feathery buzz whirring by my head earlier. Now, as I write, I catch sight of one through the window by my desk. She is sitting on a telephone wire draped toward our…
Read MoreAlong the Path: A Young Person’s Guide to Exploring Nature
Leave it to the Leaves By Susan Deo Have you ever lain down under a tree on a sunny summer day and looked up at the leaves above you? Did you notice how each leaf has oriented itself for maximum…
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The Bladderpod and Its House Guest By Susan Deo The first time I saw a bladderpod (Peritoma arborea) and its house guest, the harlequin bug (Murgantia histrionica) I was intrigued. Honestly? You almost always find harlequin bugs on these plants?…
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Coyotes!
Along the Path: A Young Person’s Guide to Exploring Nature By Susan Rothrock Deo (Featured photo by Paul Blieden) Have you heard them howling? Have you seen one prancing down the road? Coyotes are alive and well in our…
Read MoreA Nighttime Surprise
Along the Path: A Young Person’s Guide to Exploring Nature A Nighttime Surprise By Susan Rothrock Deo The other night I glanced out the windows in our family room at the city lights twinkling in the distance. A huge winged…
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Sunflower Surprises By Susan Rothrock Deo What looks like a single flower may be hundreds of tiny flowers.
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Thinner Than a Human Hair and Stronger Than Steel By Susan Rothrock Deo “Eeewww,” you say, frantically wiping the sticky strands off your face, your arms, your legs. On a nature trail or in your own backyard, you just ran…
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