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 Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the Las Virgenes Homeowners Federation and the Calabasas City Council honored Superintendent Woody Smeck for his 21 years of outstanding stewardship of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA). Source of this article: The Topanga Messenger, March 12, 2012 After serving the Read more…
Source of this article: The Ventura County Star, March 22, 2012 It took just two years for the Weekday Trailblazers hiking group to build its membership roster to nearly 600 people, but the group’s leaders say it isn’t difficult to sell the national parks. “Once you sit back and realize that Read more…
The Obama administration has earmarked $2.4 million in its 2013 budget for acquiring and protecting up to 238 acres of undeveloped land in Zuma and Trancas Canyons in the Santa Monica Mountains, U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) said in a statement. Source of this article: The Thousand Oaks Acorn, Read more…
The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department arrested a man Jan. 12 on suspicion of his breaking into numerous vehicles parked at local hiking trails. Source of this article: The Thousand Oaks Acorn, January 19, 2012 According to authorities, convicted burglar and Newbury Park resident Troyan Duss, 43, used the purses, bank Read more…
Mountains Restoration Trust (MRT) now offers naturalist workshops geared for the senior citizen. Workshops offer a variety of topics; Learn about the local Calabasas and Native American history, hike in the Cold Creek Valley Preserve, and birdwatch at the Headwaters Corner. Learn from a plant specialist how to collect seeds Read more…
Smeck currently oversees Santa Monica Mountains Source of this article: The Thousand Oaks Acorn, January 5, 2012 Woody Smeck, superintendent of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, will be hitting the dusty trails for Yosemite in the springtime. Smeck was promoted to deputy superintendent of Yosemite National Park, a Read more…
Woody Smeck, who has been the head of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area for 11 years, is leaving the post on March 30 to take another job in the National Park Service. Smeck, 49, of Moorpark will become the deputy superintendent at Yosemite National Park. He started at Read more…