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Entries Tagged as 'Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area'
Seeking Info About ’70′s Poster Advocating Saving the Santa Monica Mountains
January 29th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Arts, Conejo Valley, History, Oak Park
Tags: Oak Park·Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area·SMMNRA
Woody Smeck’s Message to Conejo Post Regarding His Leaving as Head of our Local National Park
January 18th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Conejo Valley, Outdoors
NPS Superintendent Woody Smeck sent the following email on 1-7: ” Thank you for your post of January 7, 2012…
Tags: Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area·SMMNRA
A Green Hike
April 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · California, Conejo Valley, Newbury Park, Outdoors, Ventura County
This photo is from Thousand Oaks resident Ben Pankratz, who is also a contributor to the Conejo Post. Ben says of the photo, which was taken in November, 2008: “ The hiker is on Old Boney Trail at 1.6 miles from the Wendy Trailhead in Newbury Park – and very near the Sycamore Creek crossing.” Thanks Ben, [...]
Tags: Conejo Valley·Newbury Park·Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area·Thousand Oaks
Next Chance to Go to NPS Rim of the Valley Park Meeting
September 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Conejo Valley, Green, Las Virgenes, Outdoors, Thousand Oaks
So far, the National Park Service has held one local public information-sharing meeting about the possibility of expanding the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA). We have one more opportunity to weigh in locally on this envisioned expansion, called the Rim of the Valley Corridor. The next meeting is Monday, October 4, at the [...]
Tags: Conejo Valley·Conejo Valley News·Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area·SMMNRA
Look, We’re on TV!
September 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Agoura Hills, Conejo Valley, Newbury Park, Oak Park
Tonight, I was watching the end of Huell Howser’s “California Gold” on KCET, when he went to a promo for Ken Burn’s series on the National Parks that is also running on the station. And, where was Huell for the promo? In the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA)! That is our home national park, [...]
Tags: Huell Howser·Ken Burns·Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
An Oak Tree on a Morning Walk
August 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Conejo Valley, Green
We are so blessed with magnificent oak trees in the Conejo Valley, that an alternate name for where we live could be Oak Valley. Or, we could use the Latin name for oaks, which is Quercus, except that doesn’t have as good a sound to it as conejo. About five years ago, I took a [...]
Tags: Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area·Satwiwa
Run into a Mountain Lion in the S.M. Mountains? Not Likely!
August 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Outdoors
While writing the post about the new lion princess in the Santa Monica Mountains, I started worrying about the possibility of running into her or some of her kin while hiking. Thank goodness, I just read a press release from the National Park Service! In the NPS release, it said that there have been NO reports [...]
Tags: cougars·mountain lions·pumas·Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
