The Cleveland, Los Padres and San Bernardino National Forests are participating in a one-year visitor survey called the National Visitor Use Monitoring. The survey will be conducted from Oct. 1, 2013 to Sept. 30, 2014. Interviewers will be stationed at key forest roads or exits from recreation areas. They will ask national forest visitors what…

The 2014 Jazz in the Pines will be familiar to long-time aficionados of local and straight-ahead jazz. Last week, Anne Erikson, president of the Associates of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation, announced the chairs for the August 2014 event — the 21st Idyllwild Jazz in the Pines. She and her associates colleague Pam Goldwasser will be…