“While protecting the environment constitutes a large part of sustainability, it is by no means the full picture,” states Pepperdine University’s Center for Sustainability on its website. The university has implemented sustainable…
Environment
Every February, people all over the world participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count. This citizen science event is a free, fun, easy, and engages bird watchers of all ages in counting…
It just seems right to link sustainable crop farming to raising healthy animals for food. Indeed, for hundreds of thousands of years of farming just that way has made humans the top…
Where is the best place to replant native trees following the Woolsey Fire? Where will there be suitable habitat to support native trees into the climate-changed future? How can we best protect…
A red-tailed hawk has received a second chance at life after receiving a blood transfusion. On December 3, 2019, California Wildlife Center received an adult female red-tailed hawk with evidence that she…
California State Parks and the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains (RCDSMM) are looking for your input and suggestions on planning the restoration of the Topanga Lagoon area. Following a…
A Hike in the Santa Monica Mountains Backcountry offers an uplifting start to the New Year. Above, hidden much of the year in coastal fog, the western Channel Islands appear like a…
The Rim of the Valley Corridor Preservation Act is back, and this time its authors are optimistic that the odds are in their favor. If approved by the Senate and signed into…
Some say that this is finally the era of the women’s empowerment and yet when we look at many societies including our own, there is a long way to go. The gender…
Suzanne Guldimann’s wonderful article about toyon (Toyon Decorates the Canyon with Festive Red Berries, December 13, 2019) caught my attention. Two years ago, after repeatedly trying to grow toyon from seed, I…