NATURE WALK SHINES SPOTLIGHT ON VALLEY PARK'S ATMOSPHERE.Byline: Peter Hartlaub Daily News Staff Writer Diane and Dannielle Fisher have been residents of the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. for seven years but didn't discover that paradise is in their own backyard until Saturday morning. The North Hills mother and her 7-year-old daughter joined about 100 others to receive guided tours through Woodley Park Woodley Park refers to the following:
``I can come here all the time now - the kids can play and I can read my book in peace,'' Diane Fisher Rev. Elder Diane Fisher serves as an elder (something broadly like a bishop) of the Metropolitan Community Church. She serves Region 5, which covers eastern Canada, the northeastern United States and much of central and eastern Europe. said, after completing a five-mile trek led by an experienced Audubon Society bird-watcher. ``It's easy to forget about all the skyscrapers and highways around here,'' Fisher said. ``This is a quiet, beautiful place, and I didn't even know it was here.'' Which is exactly the point of the BreathWalk, American Lung Association spokesman Kent Wallace-Meggs said. ``Several people have said they drive by this place several times per week, and they never take the time to see what it is,'' Wallace-Meggs said. The mix of families, outdoors enthusiasts and senior citizens that attended BreathWalk '98 were just in time for a migration period that delivered several Canada geese and wigeons - colorful ducks slightly smaller than mallards. ``Different birds are here in the fall and winter than in the summer,'' said Muriel Kotin, the Audubon Society's youth activities chairwoman. The Audubon Society bird-watching leaders have identified more than 200 species in the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Preserve, Kotin said. About 50 were sighted on Saturday. Wallace-Meggs said BreathWalk is the second in a series of American Lung Association programs designed to help the public develop greater appreciation for the relationship between people, wildlife the environment. The American Lung Association also hosted a Saturday afternoon hike around Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach and an event last week at the Los Angeles County Arboretum arboretum: see botanical garden. arboretum Place where trees, shrubs, and sometimes herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes. An arboretum may be a collection in its own right or a part of a botanical garden. in Arcadia. This morning, the association will host a geology walk in the Antelope Valley, from 8:30 to 11 a.m., at Devil's Punchbowl Punchbowl, hill, 500 ft (152 m) high, in the city of Honolulu, SE Oahu island, Hawaii. In the bowllike extinct volcanic crater at the summit (reached by a scenic drive) is the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, for those killed in World War II. Park in Pearblossom. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1--2) At left, a cormorant skims across a lake at the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve on Saturday. Above, an egret egret (ēgrĕt`), common name for several species of herons of the Old and New Worlds, belonging to the family Ardeidae. Before they were protected by law the birds were nearly exterminated by hunters seeking their beautiful, white, silky relaxes in the reeds beside the lake during a bird-watching excursion as part of the American Lung Association's BreathWalk. David Sprague/Daily News |
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