There was the idea that first simmered in the minds and hearts of nature champions around Southern California and beyond ...

After the Palisades Fire sparked in the Santa Monica Mountains, invasive grasses and other plants that had dried up over the rainless winter caused the blaze to burn through the hills at an ...

by the soil around the crossing that will eventually provide wildlife safe passage between the Santa Monica Mountains to the south and the Simi Hills and Santa Susana Mountains to the north when ...

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That includes about eight workers from the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and six workers from Channel Islands National Park. Park rangers fired from the Santa Monica Mountains ...

But the fire had produced nutrient-rich soil and that, along with abundant ... California State Parks, the Mountains Recreation Conservation Authority and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. One ...

Near the north end of Las Virgenes Road in the Santa Monica Mountains, rain rates hit 0.43 ... because the heat of the fire makes the soil repellent to water, which doesn't percolate as well ...

That is, Channel Islands National Park and Santa Monica Mountains National Park. The experts I spoke to painted a dire picture. Shortly after President Trump was inaugurated, his administration ...