This is not the first time the Forest Service's management practices for the Giant Sequoia National Monument have been questioned. In 2006, a federal judge ruled that the Forest Service's 2003 monument management plan failed to comply with federal environmental laws.
*Marie Van Brittan Brown was born on this date in 1922. She was an African American nurse and inventor. Born Marie Van Brittan in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, in 1966 she had the idea for a home surveillance device. She applied for a patent along with her husband Albert Brown in 1966 for a closed circuit television security system.
(Karen Schiely/Akron Beacon Journal). Stevie Marie Andrews (center), 2, waves at the elves at the North Pole as she sits with her sister, Denay, 10, and brother, Damon Mack, 11, on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad's Polar Express in Peninsula. Stevie Marie receives care from the Palliative Care Department at Akron Children's Hospital.