Ben Pankratz of Thousand Oaks, took this photo in February, 2009. It is of Sycamore Canyon Falls, which is accessed from Boney Mountain Trail – about one and a half miles from the Rancho Sierra Vista/Satwiwa Unit of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) in Newbury Park. (Wouldn’t it just be easier if the parkland were named Santa [...]
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Local Trail has Seashell Fossils
April 19th, 2011 · 1 Comment · California, Conejo Valley, History, Newbury Park, Outdoors, Ventura County
Thousand Oaks photographer and hiker, Ben Pankratz sent this in to share: “About ten million years ago, these seashells were under the Pacific Ocean on the Pacific Plate. That is the part of the earth’s crust which has lifted against the North American Plate, creating the Santa Monica Mountains. You can now see these seashell fossils [...]
Tags: Conejo Valley·Newbury Park·Satwiwa·SMMNRA·Thousand Oaks
Hills and Shadows in Oak Park
March 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Sometimes I just like to post a photo that shows the beauty of the Conejo Valley. Here is one of those photos taken this January. I was on a hillside street near the open space that edges the Palo Comado Unit of the National Park (SMMNRA), looking east toward some open space hills in the [...]
Tags: Oak Park vista·SMMNRA
L.A. Times Reviews “The Old Place” restaurant in Agoura
February 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Leafing through the L. A. Times on Thursday, I paused at a photo of a rustic storefront-kind-of building, with antlers displayed above a dilapidated sign that said, “Cornell.” Turns out, the photo went with a restaurant review for a Conejo Valley eatery, “The Old Place,” in old Cornell, on Mulholland Highway, just off Kanan Dume [...]
Tags: Agoura·Conejo Valley·Old Cornell·Peter Strauss Ranch·Restaurant review·SMMNRA
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
The Spiritual Center of the Conejo Valley
July 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Conejo Valley, Green, Meditations, Newbury Park, Outdoors
Mount Boney, to me, is the spiritual center of the Conejo Valley. It was not until I hiked around Satwiwa Rancho Sierra, part of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) in Newbury Park, that I felt a really deep connection to the land in the valley. I hiked there, shortly after I moved [...]
Three New Mountain Lion Kittens in Santa Monica Mountains
June 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Conejo Valley, Las Virgenes, Malibu, Outdoors
The Los Angeles Times reported on June 22, that the National Park Service discovered three new mountain lion kittens in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) on May 26, near Peter Strauss Ranch. Here is a link to the article, and incredible photos: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/06/rangers-welcome-some-very-cute-lion-kittens-at-santa-monica-mountains.html Posted by Janna Orkney, with a thank you to Mary [...]
Tags: National Park Service·SMMNRA
Tireless Activists, Feuer, Swift, Nelson, and later, Wiesbrock, and Boecker Gave Us Our Parkland
December 28th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Agoura Hills, Conejo Valley, Las Virgenes, Malibu, Oak Park, Outdoors
How many places could you live, where you could actually meet the people responsible for the creation of a local national park or state park? I don’t think there are many, but the Conejo Valley is definitely one of them! Margot Feuer and Mary Wiesbrock are in the photo at the left, taken at Ahmanson Ranch this [...]
Tags: Ahmanson Ranch·King Gillette Ranch·Save Open Space·SMMNRA
