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...
The Bear Truth
We have a new neighbor in the Santa Monica Mountains. On April 23, National Park Service biologists captured and radio-collared a 210-pound black bear in the western Santa Monica Mountains, south of the 101 Freeway. The bear, a young...
April is Earth Month
April is Earth Month, and there are many local opportunities to recycle, go green, and learn about environmental resources. The City of Calabasas Earth Day Celebration/Green Expo is an annual tradition. It will take place this year on Sunday,...
NPS Acquires 45 Acres at Circle X
It’s the first National Park Service land acquisition in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in years. The NPS recently announced that it has acquired 45 acres of land that abuts the Backbone Trail. It’s not a large...
April is Earth Month, and while some large community events are still on hold, there are a variety of activities
The City of Calabasas’ Earth Day Celebration/Green Expo is back, and will take place on Saturday, April 16, from 2 pm to 5 pm at the Las Virgenes Creek site, south of Agoura Rd. in Calabasas. More than fifty...
Thanksgiving Power Outage Update
More than 80,000 households and 100 electrical circuits in five counties were shut down the night before Thanksgiving, during the strongest windstorm in four years, with sustained winds of more than 50 mph and gusts of more than 75...
National Weather Service Office in Los Angeles Announces Forecast Zone Changes
The Malibu coast is getting its own weather zone. The change is part of a four-county National Weather Service zone revision. Southern California’s diverse topography creates what the NWS describes as “a complicated weather regime that is very challenging...
World premiere of The Last, Best Small Town
Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum presents the world premiere of The Last, Best Small Town, a modern-day Our Town by L.A.-based Latinx playwright John Guerra. Performances begin Saturday, July 31 on Theatricum’s beautiful outdoor stage in Topanga, where they continue...
Finding Our Routes: The Backbone Trail
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” —J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring Anyone...
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