Remote-controlled cameras first snapped P-22 in Griffith Park in February. Scientists are keeping tabs on him, and experts say he should pose no threat to humans. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, August 14, 2012 Smack in the middle of Los Angeles, feasting on deer and roaming the Read more…
A Congressional Budget Office report finds that opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other federal land would bring modest federal revenues, despite more optimistic projections by the oil and gas industry. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, August 10, 2012 WASHINGTON — Opening nearly all federal land Read more…
Average temperature in the Lower 48 was 3.3 degrees above normal, data show. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, August 9, 2012 July was the hottest month ever recorded in the United States, beating the previous record set in the 1930s Dust Bowl era, according to new data Read more…
Tree believed to be 400 years old falls near business Source of this article: The Thousand Oaks Acorn, August 9, 2012 A massive oak tree, estimated to be 400 years or older, collapsed in Thousand Oaks on Sunday outside a title and escrow company. The 50-foot valley oak fell on Read more…
A Berkely professor makes a surprise ‘total turnaround’ in a study funded by doubters of global warming. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, July 30, 2012 WASHINGTON – The verdict is in: Global warming is occurring and emissions of greenhouse gases caused by human activity are the main 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…
The male cougar shot and killed by Santa Monica police on Tuesday was 3, the age that the big cats go in search of their own territory. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, May 24, 2012 In the end, the mountain lion was probably looking for a place Read more…
Department of Fish and Game wardens and Santa Monica police officers try to tranquilize animal first. Community expresses anger that mountain lion was killed. Source of this article: The Santa Monica Patch, May 22, 2012. A trip to the beach ended badly for a mountain lion that wandered into Santa Read more…
The National Park Service, along with local and state agencies, will open the Anthony C. Beilenson Visitor Center for the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area on June 9. Source of this article: The Thousand Oaks Acorn, May 3, 2012 The new facility, at the site of the former stables Read more…
The bill, backed by House Republicans, would retain the zone south of Point Conception until wildlife officials develop a plan ensuring that the threatened marine mammals and endangered abalone recover and that the commercial shellfish harvest stays at current levels. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, April 27, Read more…