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Wilderness Yin and Yang
Wilderness Yin and Yang
Sunday, Mar 16, 2014

Hurrah for the U.S. Congress. (Did I really say that?) Both the House and the Senate approved a wilderness bill in Michigan earlier this month. The fact that they could actually agree on something, and the fact that the bill was wilderness, is amazing. Up to now, not a single wilderness bill has passed...

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1978 - Original Colossus coaster opens at Magic Mountain [watch it being built]
Colossus under construction
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1926 - Film director Mel Brooks born in Brooklyn; shot "Blazing Saddles" at Vasquez Rocks and "Robin Hood: Men In Tights" in Sand Canyon [story]
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Today in SCV History (June 27)
1542 - Explorer Juan Cabrillo sets sail from Mexico; will stop for a drink at mouth of Santa Clara River [story]
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Today in SCV History (June 26)
1972 - Upper (main) Castaic Lake opens for swimming and boating; afterbay opened in May [story]
Castaic Lake
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1859 - Outlaw Tiburcio Vasquez escapes from prison while serving sentence for grand larceny in L.A. County; recaptured in August and sent to San Quentin [story]
Tiburcio Vasquez
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