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The Revolution Will Be Improvised 
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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...
Desert Voices 
Suzanne Guldimann, August 23, 2024 0  
“‘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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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...
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SMC Classes 

TNT Staff, August 9, 2024 0 2 min read  
Free Online SMC Sustainability Certificates & Courses Sustainability Classes and Certificates for your current career or to help you onto a new green path. Santa Monica College delivers high quality, relevant education, and training designed to give you the...
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Jody Lyle – Superintendent 

TNT Staff, July 26, 2024 0 2 min read  
The National Park Service (NPS) has selected Jody Lyle as the new permanent superintendent of Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) beginning July 28, 2024. Lyle first started working with the NPS in 1992 as an environmental educator...
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Topanga Lagoon Restoration Project 

TNT Staff, July 26, 2024 0 2 min read  
California State Parks announced that members of the public can review the proposed Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) for the Topanga Lagoon Restoration Project now through August 13th. The proposed FEIR identifies the range of closely related alternatives considered...
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RCD on YouTube 

TNT Staff, May 31, 2024 0 1 min read  
The RCD’s Community Resilience team, with a grant from CalFire, created a series of videos to help our communities become more wildfire resilient. The videos cover wildfire preparedness, fire ecology and how-tos for home hardening & defensible space. RCD...