Nearly half of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) was damaged by the Woolsey Fire, leaving many parks closed and limiting options for hikers, bikers, and equestrians. The damage assessment…
An estimated 88 percent of the National Park Service’s parkland and nearly half of the SMMNRA were burned in the Woolsey fire. After two years as Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke resigned under…
The mountains in the Woolsey Fire burn scar area may look as desolate as the dark side of the moon, but beneath the ashes new life is already stirring. The National Park…
Above, the view from the old bridge looking towards Goat Buttes in the heart of Malibu Creek State Park reveals burned areas but also untouched oak trees. Photo by Suzanne Guldimann Malibu…
Every Christmas, for at least a decade and maybe more, someone has decorated the roadside pine tree at the top of Kanan Dume Road. Santa Ana winds have blown down the decorations,…
Following a series of rainstorms, neighbors and volunteers sandbag the banks of the debris-filled lake owned by the Seminole Springs Mobile Home Park to deter flooding parts of the neighborhood that didn’t…
Nearly half of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area was burned during the Woolsey Fire, and many parks in the patchwork of open space remained closed due to extensive damage. That…
I have a hundred stories of the Woolsey Fires, but this one is the strangest. Our house on Point Dume in Malibu survived the Woolsey Fire—thanks to neighbors who stayed behind and…
Holiday spirit has been muted this year in the Santa Monica Mountains by the Woolsey Fire and its aftermath. Because of the fire, we missed Hanukkah this year, and half the Christmas…
Nature will recover in her own time. Humans will be wise to follow her lead. It took an army of fire fighters more than two weeks to fully contain the Woolsey Fire.…