The Train to Nowhere: Travels on the Hueneme, Malibu & Port Los Angeles Railroad
Imagine a train steaming along the beach, just yards from the ocean on tracks laid on the shifting sand. It sounds like a surrealist painting…
Mother’s Day
It’s still springtime, but wildfire season is already here. Fires broke out in Agoura Hills and Thousand Oaks last week but quick response limited both…
Angels and Aliens: Encounters with Zooplankton
I was bending down to pick up what I thought was a scrap of clear plastic, the kind that cigarette boxes are wrapped in, when…
Aliens & Angels
Meet Phronima, a rarely seen deep ocean resident that recently turned up on a local beach. How rarely seen? The citizen science site iNaturalist lists…
Revisiting Silent Spring
Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking environmental wake-up call Silent Spring officially turns 60 next year, but the work was completed in 1961 and optioned by The New Yorker,…
Earth is Home
April is Earth Month. While the Biden Administration and national environmental organizations continue the monumental effort to undo the damage the Trump Administration did to…
Envisioning a Poison Free Life
Anticoagulant rodenticide has been described as the new DDT, indiscriminately killing animals throughout the food chain in an unsuccessful effort to control rodents, in the…
Wildflowers Bloom Despite Drought
Topanga has received just 5.54 inches of rain so far this season. The rainfall totals for the rest of the Santa Monica Mountains range from…
Meet the Neighbors: Topanga’s Wild Rabbits
We are blessed to live alongside a wide variety of wildlife in the Santa Monica Mountains. The sight of a coyote or a bobcat, a…
