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New Mountain Lion Kittens in the Santa Monicas

June 23, 2010

The Santa Monica Mountains are home to some great local hiking, but we also share this territory with some of the most urban mountain lions in the country. Since 2002, researchers have been tracking and monitoring 19 mountain lions in the mountains, and over the past month they were witness to the birth of three [...]

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Rim of the Valley Corridor Study Begins

June 3, 2010

Tomorrow, on Friday, June 4th, the National Park Service and Representative Adam Schiff will host a press conference at 10AM at the Eaton Canyon Nature Center to kick off the Rim of the Valley Corridor Special Resource Study. This study will help determine whether or not any areas of the western San Gabriels are eligible [...]

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Saturday Wildflower Hike on Sandstone Peak

April 9, 2010

If you’re in the mood to go wildflower-peeping this weekend, the National Park Service will hold a ranger-led 4-mile hike on the Mishe Mokwa Trail to find out what’s blooming at 2000 feet tomorrow morning. On Saturday, April 10th at 9AM, an NPS Ranger will take a group of hikers onto the Mishe Mokwa Trail, [...]

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Public Comment on World War II NPS Historic Sites

November 30, 2009

This Thursday and Friday, the National Park Service will hold listening sessions in Los Angeles and San Francisco to take public comments about its grand program for preserving World War II-era Japanese Internment sites. I know it’s not technically hiking news, but I had the opportunity to visit Manzanar National Historic Site this year on [...]

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Ranger vs. Rattler

May 28, 2009

While the title of the video is a bit misleading – you don’t ever see the ranger and there’s no actual fight – the content is pretty intense. This is a video of a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, coiled and rattling, taken in the Santa Monica Mountains. The video was shot by a National Park Ranger [...]

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NPS Map Update

February 11, 2008

The National Park Service has updated and upgraded the maps on individual parks’ web sites. They’re basically high-res scans of those Park maps they hand out at Visitors’ Centers — so while they’re not really suitable for hiking, they are great at getting an overview of a specific area you’re planning on visiting … and [...]

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Park Service Old-Timers Tell It Like It Is

January 8, 2008

It often seems like National Park Service employees aren’t really allowed to speak their mind until well AFTER they’ve left the Service — even when it’s their job to specifically do so. So while we watch President Bush make web videos about how much he loves the Park Service, we can later read a comprehensive [...]

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