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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: A LEGACY OF TRIUMPHS AND TROUBLED WATERS 
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Mission Impossible U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 
Suzanne Guldimann, March 21, 2025 0  
If it’s dangerous, difficult, or downright impossible and it involves American infrastructure, disaster recovery, or water resources, there’s a good chance the US Army Corps of Engineers will be the ones called in to deal with it, sometimes with...
Malibu Reeling 
Suzanne Guldimann, March 7, 2025 8  
The Malibu stretch of Pacific Coast Highway turns 100 next year. It’s strange to know its centennial will begin with a third of the houses, businesses, landmarks that have built up along this road over the past century almost...
Pacific Palisades: Paradise Lost 
Suzanne Guldimann, February 21, 2025 1  
The Palisades fire is named for the Palisades Highlands, where the blaze erupted on the morning of January 7, 2025. The conflagration rapidly spread throughout Pacific Palisades and then into Malibu and unincorporated Los Angeles County, including Sunset Mesa,...
LA ON FIRE 
Suzanne Guldimann, January 24, 2025 0  
Once the fires began on January 7, stopping them was impossible. Hurricane-force winds and extreme dry conditions with single-digit humidity created a tsunami of flame, a towering wave of destruction that destroyed everything in its path and was carried...
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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...