Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area News

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A mountain lion was found dead Thursday on Highway 118 near Simi Valley, and authorities said it was probably hit by a car.

Wild Goose Island in Glacier National Park. Photo by firehole via Flickr. 1. The photo accompanying this quiz was taken in Glacier National Park and is quite similar to the one that graces the Traveler home ...

Amateur photographers experience seeing their work displayed for the public at the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Visitor Center in Thousand Oaks, thanks, to an annual competition aimed at ...

Diminutive Corral Canyon Park is one of the newer parcels of open space to be added to the archipelago of public lands known as the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.

The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy may have an ally in the California Coastal Commission in its ongoing battle to bring camping to Malibu.

A splendid sense of isolation pervades the upper reaches of Solstice Canyon - thanks to the preservation of thousands of acres of land that have been incorporated into the Santa Monica Mountains National ...

Faced with declining attendance, especially among younger people, a panel of leaders from around the country met Monday in Westlake Village to discuss how national parks can stay relevant in today's world.

' National Park Service Director Mary A. Bomar today hailed establishment of the Second Century Commission, a nonpartisan citizens group that will provide recommendations for the future of the national park ...

Los Angeles, the second-largest metropolitan area in the U.S., may well hold a key to the future of America's national parks.

Former Sens. Howard Baker, Jr., R-Tenn., and J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., D-La., announced today the formation of the National Parks Second Century Commission.

Noted biologist E.O. Wilson is among 30 people seated on a National Parks Second Century Commission.

The National Park Service, which planned to move its local office to the King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas next year, now expects to stay in Thousand Oaks through 2011, officials say.

The 4-mile-long, finger-shaped Hillcrest Open Space area in Thousand Oaks laps into a patchwork of suburban streets.

Coyotes live here. Like us, they are growing in numbers. And like us, they have increased their home ranges, sometimes traveling miles to skirt denser suburbs and freeway barriers.

Seth Riley, wildlife biologist for the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, is concerned about the loss of coyotes to speeding cars and rat poison.

To help us better share space, he is heading a study of about 40 coyotes, using radio collars and a National Park Service SUV with a rooftop antenna to monitor their activities. What are the coyotes doing out there?

Water dumping helicopters worked to save a campsite filled with more than 200 people near Malibu Creek State Park on Friday, as a fast-moving fire broke out and ruined 4th of July celebrations for park-goers. ...

About 20 acres were scorched in Malibu after a mobile home fire sparked brush near Malibu Creek State Park.