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…
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…
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…
CRPD project to receive $1.67M Source of this article, the Thousand Oaks Acorn, June 29, 2017 The only community park in Thousand Oaks’ master plan that remains undeveloped is one step closer to breaking ground. The advisory committee for the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy has approved a $1.67-million grant for Read more…
Pavley, Parks among 11 female honorees Source of this article, the Thousand Oaks Acorn, May 18, 2017 Spring showers and a Chumash prayer ushered in the who’s who of environmental champions honored at the second annual Santa Monica Mountains Fund spring celebration May 7 at King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas. Read more…
The Backbone Trail, a 67-mile route among the sycamore canyons and sandstone peaks of the Santa Monica Mountains, was a dream in the 1960s. Today it is a reality. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, May 26, 2016 Backbone Trail: 1944 The establishment of Will Rogers State Read more…
Finally, a route will run through it Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, May 26, 2016 For more than 50 years, Southern Californians have dreamed of following an uninterrupted trail among the sycamore canyons and sandstone peaks of the Santa Monica Mountains. Over the decades, the Backbone Trail, Read more…
Source of this article: KCET.org, June 25, 2015 The public is so often chastised for not really hanging in to achieve action on a particular cause. This reaffirms the need for really hanging in. All those people who worked — for that length of time — did it. – Margot Read more…
Rim of the Valley study now in fifth year Source of this article: The Thousand Oaks Acorn, April 18, 2013 The mountains encircling the Conejo and Simi valleys may soon become part of the U.S. National Park Service. The Conejo Mountain area, Simi Hills and Santa Susana Mountains make up Read more…
The threat of development led Margot Feuer to be one of ‘the founding mothers’ of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, June 29, 2012 By Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times After Margot Feuer moved to the hills of Malibu in Read more…