Vetter won the USFS Bissell Medal for outstanding work in forest conservation (1930).

Charlton Flats is a picnic grounds located to northeast face of Vetter Mountain, about 40 minutes drive from the Interstate 210.

Vetter Mountain is between the "Chaparral" zone to the south, and the "Montane Forest" to the north.

The "Chaparral" zone is found on the hot, dry, south facing slopes of the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.

Plants are chest height, dense, prickly, and evergreen; typically contains chamise, yucca, Ceanothus, scrub oak, laurel sumac, white sage black sage, poison oak, and in the higher elevations, manzanita and mountain mahogany.