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TREES IN BLOOM 
Suzanne Guldimann, April 18, 2025 0  
This isn’t one of those springs when the hills are covered in a vivid profusion of wildflowers. The Santa Monica Mountains have received just a fraction of the average rainfall for the season. Hot weather is already arriving, drying...
SAVING THE COAST 
Suzanne Guldimann, April 4, 2025 0  
The Trump Administration is taking aim at the California Coastal Commission, and according to a recent New York Times article, the President may have an ally in California Governor Gavin Newsom. The Times headline states “Trump and Newsom Find...
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...
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Community Corner 

TNT Staff, February 7, 2025 0 9 min read  
A letter from Willow Geer, Theatricum Botanicum As I sit here, miraculously back home, surrounded by suitcases I am reticent to unpack, I try to wrap my mind around the past two weeks.  A fever dream of evacuating with...
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The Making of Butterfly Day 

TNT Staff, March 22, 2024 0 10 min read  
Young Topangan Coyolli Jimenez has been designated this year’s Butterfly Day Goodwill Ambassador. “Coyolli” is an Aztec name for a small ringing bell. It’s also the first name of the twelve-year-old daughter of Sergio Jimenez, the man in charge...
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On Fire 

Suzanne Guldimann, November 3, 2023 0 15 min read  
Two years ago, fire came here. It licked the thick brush from the high hills, And filled the canyon with flame. It leaped from the great parapet of Boney Mountain And swept the slopes below. The hill people fled...