Community Corner
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...
FIRST PERSON
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...
Turtles Party in the Pond!
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...
IMAGINE A WORLD…WITHOUT SMMNRA
The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area is turning 45 on November 10, 2023. Almost all of the big western national parks were created from huge areas of undeveloped wilderness, but this living crazy-quilt of a park—spread across 153,250...
RCDSMM Research Reveals 14 Bat Species in Topanga
New research reveals that Topanga is home to 14 bat species—twice as many as previously known, and the new finds include several rare and unusual species. Rosi Dagit, the Senior Conservation Biologist for the Resource Conservation District of the...
Turtle Tales
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...
Topanga Sessions Builds Music Community
Zeke Reed grew up in Topanga and found his spiritual and creative grounding in the canyon at a young age. Weekends and afternoons were spent wandering the hillsides, exploring creek beds and helping Rosi Dagit with stream cleanups. Zeke...
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