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Mushroom Madness 
Suzanne Guldimann, November 1, 2024 0  
Fungi can cure or kill, nourish life, and also decompose it back into soil. Fossil evidence for fungi is limited, but the ability to analyze molecular data has led to revelations about the evolution of this extraordinary family of...
Fool’s Gold: The Myth of Tiburcio Vasquez 
Suzanne Guldimann, October 18, 2024 0  
“And still of a winter’s night, they say,  when the wind is in the trees, When the moon is a ghostly galleon  tossed upon cloudy seas,    When the road is a ribbon of moonlight  over the purple moor,    A...
Billions in Flight: Migratory Birds 
Suzanne Guldimann, September 20, 2024 0  
Autumn doesn’t officially begin until the equinox on September 22, but all across North America birds are already on the wing—billions of them. Migration times and destinations vary based on the species and variables like weather and food sources—some...
One-Room Schoolhouse 
Suzanne Guldimann, September 6, 2024 0  
Back to school. A hundred years ago in Topanga, it would have been on foot—and often barefoot—to the little, red, one-room schoolhouse by the creek in the bend of the dirt road.  Public education in California was still relatively...
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Desert Voices 

Suzanne Guldimann, August 23, 2024 0 12 min read  
“‘Just now our blood dances to other music.’ They fell a-twittering among themselves once more, and this time their intoxicating babble was of violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls.” The swallows in Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows...
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Desert Daytrip 

Suzanne Guldimann, August 23, 2024 0 7 min read  
A desert experience doesn’t always require one to crawl on hands and knees through the thornbush and cactus, regardless of what Edward Abbey says. Anyone seeking cactus, sandstone, and volcanic peaks need look no farther than our own Santa...
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Day Trippin’ 

TNT Staff, August 23, 2024 0 5 min read  
As summer begins to wind down and cooler autumn weather is almost in reach some of us begin to hear the desert calling. The deserts of the American West are vast—they cover more than 500,000 square miles of the...
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Topanga Lagoon Restoration Project 

TNT Staff, August 23, 2024 0 3 min read  
The final environmental impact report for the Topanga Lagoon Restoration Project was recently released. Four build alternatives were considered for the complicated, multi-agency, multi-year project, ranging from doing nothing, to the most ambitious proposal that would have required moving...