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Fool’s Gold: The Myth of Tiburcio Vasquez 
“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 
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 
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...
Desert Voices 
“‘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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Invasive Shothole Borer (ISHB) training for residents of Topanga Canyon

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Protect your trees! The non-native, Invasive Shothole Borer (ISHB) is found throughout Los Angeles and Ventura Counties and is killing numbers of native and non-native trees. Are they in your backyard trees and neighborhood parks? Made for homeowners in Topanga...

Learn from the pros how to plant a butterfly garden. 

UC Riverside Campus Garden 1 Botanic Gardens Dr, Riverside, CA

Learn from the pros how to plant a butterfly garden. If you want to attract butterflies to your yard, you must understand when they breed. UC Riverside’s master gardener docents tell all, detailing which plants are best and how the...

Event Series RCDSMM Crayfish Removals

RCDSMM Crayfish Removals

Join the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains to remove invasive red swamp crayfish from our local creeks! Invasive crayfish have negative impacts on native endangered sh and we need your help to rid our streams of this pesky pest.For...

California Native Garden Maintenance: A Hands-On Beginner’s Guide

Santa Monica Mountains Interagency Visitor Center - King Gillette Ranch @ 26876 Mulholland Hwy, Calabasas, CA 91302, USA, , , , ,

Part lecture, part hands-on guide designed to help local gardeners take the fear out of planting, pruning and watering their native plants About this event Join us outdoors and in-person for a fun class covering the basics of installing...

Artist Talk Peter Kagan “Life and Limb”

Topanga Canyon Gallery 137 S Topanga Canyon Blvd, Topanga, CA

Photographer Peter Kagan’s “Life and Limb” will be on view at the Topanga Canyon Art Gallery Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays September 11 to September 25. Kagan presents intimate black and white portraits and life studies from a lifetime of artistic work. The show is accompanied by his book...