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The Bridge to Nowhere is an arch bridge that was built in 1936 north of Azusa, California, United States in the San Gabriel Mountains. It spans the East Fork of the San Gabriel River and was meant to be part of a road connecting the San Gabriel Valley with Wrightwood, California.
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Big Dalton Dam is a multiple arch concrete dam in Los Angeles County, California, built for the Los Angeles County Flood Control District and completed in August 1929. The dam is one of the earliest of the multiple arch "double-wall" buttress designs of engineer Fred A. Noetzli. The 991 acre-foot dam provides water conservation and controls flooding from Big Dalton Canyon, a watershed within the San Dimas Experimental Forest, part of the Angeles National Forest in the San Gabriel Mountains. It is about 4 miles northeast of the city of Glendora and is operated by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works.
The San Gabriel Complex Fire was a wildfire that burned in 2016 in the Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles County, California, United States. It was the combination of two separate wildfires: the Reservoir Fire and the Fish Fire, both of which ignited on June 20.
The San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy (RMC) is an agency of the State of California in the United States with the mission of preserving open space and habitat for low-impact recreation and educational uses, wildlife habitat restoration and protection, and watershed improvements within its jurisdiction. The conservancy was created by the state legislature in 1999, and is headquartered in Azusa. It is 1 of 10 conservancies within the California Natural Resources Agency. At the time of its founding, it was the state's first conservancy to primarily serve an urban area.
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- ↑ Forest Service budget cuts Accessed 2013-06-26
- ↑ Southern California Population
- ↑ Angeles National Forest Visitor Counts
- ↑ Fishing Academy Accessed 2013-06-26
- ↑ San Gabriel Watershed Accessed 2013-06-26
- ↑ Conservancy Patrols Accessed 2013-06-26
- ↑ Conservancy Email Address Accessed 2013-06-26
- ↑ Sierra Madre Search & Rescue
- ↑ San Gabriel Mountain Trailbuilders
- ↑ Angeles Volunteer Association
- ↑ Fisheries Resource Volunteer Corps
- ↑ San Dimas Mountain Rescue Team