Environment

A Model of Sustainability

“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…

Birdwatchers Encouraged to Take Part in Annual Bird Count

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…

Silvopasture—Drawdown Solution #9

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…

Growing Trees for the Future

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…

Poisoned Hawk Receives Life-Saving Transfusion

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…

Topanga Lagoon Restoration Planning Meeting

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…

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Hiking Santa Monica Mountains Back Country

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…

Rim of the Valley Corridor Preservation

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…

Propagating Toyon

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…