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Volunteer Mounted Patrol has been disbanded . . . for now

The Santa Monica Mountains’ Mounted Volunteer Patrol has been corralled. Source of this article: The Thousand Oaks Acorn, November 25, 2022 Since the 1980s the patrol has roamed the 153,000-acre recreation area, riding horses through mountain canyons and trails so they can lend a helping hand to people in a Read more…

By Steve, 2 monthsNovember 25, 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, 3 monthsOctober 20, 2022 ago
California

To guard world’s tallest tree, state poses fines and jail time

Sturdy, Instagram-ready thrill-seekers are entranced by Hyperion’s size and challenged by the secrecy. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, August 2, 2022 It sounds hard to hide the tallest tree in the world. But that’s exactly what officials at California’s Redwood National Park have been trying to do Read more…

By Steve, 6 months ago
California

Yosemite undergoes forest-thinning project due to wildfire risk; environmentalists want it stopped

Forest thinning is now being conducted at Yosemite National Park. Environmentalists want it to stop, saying the work was never fully vetted. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, June 14, 2022. For more than a century, Yosemite National Park was viewed as a refuge where nature prevails unmolested Read more…

By Steve, 7 monthsJune 14, 2022 ago
California

The Devil’s Hole pupfish has paddled back from the brink in a hellish desert domain

A decade ago, biologists feared the species was doomed Source of this article – The Los Angeles Times, May 4, 2022 SHOSHONE, Calif. — How the Devil’s Hole pupfish has survived for centuries in a spa-like cistern cloistered by a barren rock mountain in Death Valley National Park remains a biological mystery. Read more…

By Steve, 9 monthsMay 4, 2022 ago
California State Parks

Backbone Trail back in business after fire

Source of this article, The Thousand Oaks Acorn, July 25, 2019 Eight months after the largest fire to ever hit Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, all 67 miles of the park’s most famous trail have reopened to the public. The final six miles of the Backbone Trail that had Read more…

By Steve, 4 yearsJuly 25, 2019 ago
Calabasas

King Gillette Ranch has a storied history

Source of this article: The Thousand Oaks Acorn, July 11, 2019 King Gillette Ranch is an idyllic 588-acre parcel of parkland that sits on Las Virgenes Road opposite the entrance to Malibu Creek State Park, but its status as protected public land dates back less than 20 years. The history Read more…

By Steve, 4 yearsJuly 11, 2019 ago
California State Parks

Mothers of the Santa Monica Mountains

Three women fought to create the Santa Monica Mountains parkland now burned by the Woolsey fire Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, December 2, 2018 The Woolsey fire was a 14-mile-long wall of flames when, on the morning of Nov. 9, it jumped the 101 Freeway and began Read more…

By Steve, 4 yearsDecember 2, 2018 ago
California State Parks

LA-area mountain lions face a smaller, harsher world after wildfires

It will take ’10 to 20 years’ before Santa Monica Mountains look like they did before Woolsey fire Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, November 18, 2018 Two dozen biologists with binoculars and telemetry equipment fanned out across the smoldering gulches and slopes of the Santa Monica Mountains Read more…

By Steve, 4 yearsNovember 18, 2018 ago
Conejo Valley

Mountain lion makes rare successful crossing of L.A.-area freeways

Source of this article: The Researchers recently documented a rare case of a cougar from the Santa Monica Mountains successfully crossing U.S. Highway 101 and moving into a range less hemmed in by Southern California sprawl, the National Park Service said Monday. The subadult male, dubbed P-55, crossed the 101 Read more…

By Steve, 5 yearsAugust 7, 2017 ago

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