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LA ON FIRE 
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...
Pacific Coast Shorebirds 
Across the lonely beach we flit,  One little sandpiper and I,  And fast I gather, bit by bit,  The scattered drift-wood, bleached and dry.  The wild waves reach their hands for it,  The wild wind raves, the tide runs...
Travels on Pacific Coast Highway 
The local stretch of Pacific Coast Highway was constantly in the news in 2024, as state and local officials, residents, commuters and other stakeholders grappled with safety on this increasingly deadly road. TNT Editor Suzanne Guldimann’s feature on the...
Christmas in Topanga, 1942 
The Coastwatchers, TNT’s original fiction series set in Malibu during WWII, concludes in this issue. Our story began in December, 1941, just after the United States entered WWII, and ends on Christmas, 1942. Coastwatchers focuses on the experiences of...
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Rodenticide Kills Everything! 

Anticoagulant rodenticides kill far more than rodents. This class of widely available pesticides expose pets and local wildlife to deadly poison and the risk of a slow, agonizingly painful death. Rodenticides are still having a catastrophic impact on wildlife,...
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SAMO Fund Sign Program 

The Santa Monica Mountains Fund is giving away Break the Poison Chain garden signs free of charge to anyone who requests them. The signs are part of SAMO Fund’s Break the Poison Chain campaign, established in partnership with the...
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To Be a Mermaid 

An Interview with Linden Wolbert Among the oaks and rocky canyons of Topanga lives a real live mermaid. Linden Wolbert is a professional mermaid or entrepre-mermaid and ocean “edutainer” who uses her freediving skills to perform underwater, transforming herself...