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…
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…
Four female kittens were found and will be part of the National Park Service’s 20-year-study on mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, December 14, 2022 Four new mountain lion kittens are prowling in a rocky area of the western Santa Monica Read more…
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…
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…
2-year old lion part of baby boom Source of this article: The Thousand Oaks Acorn, July 29, 2022 A mountain lion known by researchers to be born during the Santa Monica Mountains’ famed “Summer of Kittens” two years ago died on the 101 Freeway the morning of July 18. The Read more…
P-54 was struck around 9:30 a.m. in the Santa Monica Mountains. Her mother was killed in 2018, and one of her sons was killed just two months ago. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, June 17, 2022. A mountain lion was struck and killed by a vehicle Friday Read more…
If your New Year’s resolution was to hike more but you’re bored with your local trails, check out some nearby hikes with caves to keep your repertoire fresh. Source of this article, the Thousand Oaks Acorn, January 14, 2021 The Cave of Munits is in the Upper Las Virgenes Open 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…
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…