LA Times article on trail restoration

[Sean]

The Rubio Canyon Trail Crew and I appear in this LA Times article about restoring trails in the Eaton and Palisades burn areas. The article features several local trail crews and their leaders.

The Eaton fire ripped through the Rubio Canyon Preserve, seriously damaging the canyon’s chaparral, coast sage scrub and riparian habitats.
Green said his crew has almost finished restoring the Loma Alta Trail and has put in several hours on the Gooseberry Motorway, which takes hikers up and over a ridgeline, eventually into Angeles National Forest. The motorway was originally built by Southern California Edison to install electrical towers, Green said.
The crew has started seeing wildflowers, trees and wildlife all return to the canyon.
“The land is recovering,” Green said. “The Eaton fire caused a lot of damage, burning many houses down and burning the vegetation, but nature is very resilient and it will come back. ... The canyon itself is going to take awhile to look like a vegetated canyon bottom because of all the debris that came down, but the rest of Rubio Canyon is going to regrow. It’s going to look pretty, and we’re going to get the trails in shape.”

[dima]

Thanks for the link! One of the photo's captions says "1997". Have you really been running that group for that long? I had no idea.

[Sean]

One of the photo's captions says "1997". Have you really been running that group for that long?

No, they goofed up the years on the photo captions. The two photos are from December 2025.

[Matthew]

Fantastic article Sean!