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LOOKING BACK— Four buildings will be rebuilt at Paramount Ranch. Nos. 1 through 3 will accommodate film operations and be available for public events. The new buildings for construction: 1: Pavilion, a covered event space with room for 265 people. 2: Prop shed, an indoor event structure with 100-person capacity. 3: Barn, an indoor event space with 200-person capacity. 4: Restrooms. Once the four new buildings are complete, the National Park Service will work with film companies, partner organizations and volunteers to build and add new movie sets.
Calabasas

Paramount Ranch rebuild gets underway

Five years after Paramount Ranch was destroyed in the Woolsey fire, work is set to get underway rebuilding the site in rural Agoura, a mainstay of TV and film production for decades. Source of this article, the Thousand Oaks Acorn, June 2, 2023 The National Park Service awarded a contract Read more…

By Steve, 5 daysJune 2, 2023 ago
Conejo Valley

COSCA helps protect and maintain the wilderness of the Conejo Valley

It’s no accident that many areas of Thousand Oaks are surrounded by natural hillsides with no housing developments on top of them, like so many other parts of Southern California. One big reason is the Conejo Open Space Conservation Agency (COSCA), a joint powers authority created in 1977 by the Read more…

By Steve, 2 monthsApril 3, 2023 ago
History

Two gray wolves captured and collared in Northern California

Experts say collaring the wolves and tracking their movements is a critical part of rehabilitating the diminished population. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, March 26, 2023 Two members of California’s small but rebounding gray wolf population have been located and given tracking collars, bolstering the state’s conservation Read more…

By Steve, 2 monthsMarch 26, 2023 ago
History

Famed mountain lion P-22 laid to rest in private tribal ceremony

Members of 4 tribes honor the beloved cougar with a burial in an undisclosed spot Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, March 7, 2023 P-22, the mountain lion who prowled Griffith Park for more than a decade, was buried Saturday in an intimate tribal ceremony in the Santa Read more…

By Steve, 3 monthsMarch 7, 2023 ago
Budget and Spending

Conservationists near goal of turning Orange County oil field into nature preserve

Banning Ranch is home to roughly 167 acres of marshes, mudflats, riparian scrub and coastal sage scrub that provides habitat for sensitive species Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, December 20, 2022 The nonprofit Trust for Public Land on Friday completed the purchase of an oil field that Read more…

By Steve, 6 monthsDecember 20, 2022 ago
History

Remembering P-22: Improbable trek led puma to win Angelenos’ hearts

Beloved mountain lion euthanized due to severe injuries Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, December 18, 2023 The mountain lion P-22, who lived in the heart of Los Angeles for more than a decade and became the face of an international campaign to save Southern California’s threatened pumas, Read more…

By Steve, 6 monthsDecember 18, 2022 ago
California

Why the Colorado river is drying up – and what we can do about it

The Colorado river is the lifeblood of the US Southwest, but today it is drastically depleted due to overuse, megadrought and climate change. Here’s how to rescue it. Source of this article, New Scientist, November 22, 2023 “The river was nowhere and everywhere,” wrote naturalist Aldo Leopold of the Colorado Read more…

By Steve, 7 monthsNovember 22, 2022 ago
Conejo Valley

A brief history of the Conejo Recreation and Parks District

Source of this article: The Thousand Oaks Acorn, November 18, 2022 1962: Voters create the Conejo Recreation and Park District with more then 80% in favor. Luther Schwich, Marvin Burrow, Roy Dehm, Joan McGillis and Donald Roberts are elected as the first board of directors. 1964: On Sept. 24, voters Read more…

By Steve, 7 monthsNovember 18, 2022 ago
Development

Mountain lions face greater risk of becoming roadkill in wildfire’s aftermath

As mountain lions seek to avoid wildfire zones, their risks of being hit by automobiles or entering deadly conflicts with other pumas are increasing. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, October 20, 2022 Conservationists have long warned that Southern California mountain lions could vanish within decades due to Read more…

By Steve, 8 monthsOctober 20, 2022 ago
Budget and Spending

Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company to Fight Climate Change

Patagonia made him a billionaire. Now he’s giving it away to save the climate Source of this article: the Los Angeles Times, September 14, 2022 Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard is giving his company away — to planet Earth, he announced Wednesday. “I never wanted to be a businessman,” Chouinard wrote Read more…

By Steve, 9 monthsSeptember 14, 2022 ago

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