Stinging and biting insects, including mosquitos, black flies, and wasps, are an inevitable part of summer in the Santa Monica Mountains, especially following a wet winter. There are a bewildering number of…
Environment
School is over. Progress reports are out and someone got a bad grade. In the latest report card released by UCLA, Los Angeles County received a “C” for air quality. Twenty…
Ed Edmiston of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy (SMMC) reminds us of the capabilities and challenges as we face, yet again, the “worst fire season ever.” The Mountains Restoration Conservation Authority (MRCA)…
There are just two major cities on earth where big cats and humans are known to coexist, one of them is Mumbai, India, where leopards still thrive, the other is Los Angeles,…
FOR FIVE DAYS, L.A. COUNTY’S FIRE FIGHTING ARSENAL OF FIVE WATER-DROPPING HELICOPTERS WERE BROUGHT TO BEAR ON THIS STEEP, IMPENETRABLE TERRAIN THAT KEPT GROUND CREWS AT BAY. Around the same time as…
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s recent recommendation to review the status of 27 national monuments, “shrink” the size of California’s Bears Ears National Monument, and “privatize” other national parks has generated ferocious…
Calabasas City officials continue to approve inappropriate development that encroaches into ecologically and culturally sensitive areas, this time at the mouth of Malibu Canyon at Las Virgenes Road where a three-story hotel…
On June 15, the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority (MRCA) closed escrow on 5 key acres in Liberty Canyon (APN 2052-013-040). The acquisition of this property within the Liberty Canyon wildlife corridor…
Manzanita School’s Speakers Series brings campus to community for a multi-generational discussion of new paradigms that connect a deep understanding of nature to everyday living and to global concerns, like seeds that…
Rosi Dagit tapped NASA and a formidable team of ecologists in a study that analyzed the impacts of drought and beetles on our woodlands throughout the local ecosystem. When you look…