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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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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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FIRST PERSON 

TNT Staff, January 24, 2025 2 9 min read  
We received some personal stories from the community. Below are submissions from Bill Buerge from the Mountain Mermaid, Kraig Hill from Malibu and Rosi Dagit from Topanga During the Palisades fire, Bill Buerge threw open the doors of the...
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Turtles Party in the Pond! 

Rosi Dagit, November 3, 2023 0 4 min read  
Editor’s note: The western pond turtle is the only remaining native freshwater turtle in California. This once-abundant species is increasingly at risk from habitat loss, climate change and water quality issues. The western pond turtle is a California species...
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Turtle Tales 

TNT Staff, October 8, 2021 0 1 min read  
Rosi Dagit, senior conservation biologist for the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains, and longtime Western pond turtle advocate, has a message for TNT’s readers: The drought and extreme heat have been hard on many of us...