The park's 150,000 acres span lush Mediterranean and coastal marine ecosystems, providing habitat to more than 1,000 different plant and 500 animal species ... Places and Stories Within Nature: Santa ...

Months after a devastating fire consumed 100,000 acres in and around Los Angeles’ Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, a traveler finds new life and beauty among ... times in the last ...

The city of Los Angeles agreed to pay nearly $2 million in fines for bulldozing over nine acres of a state park in the Santa Monica Mountains and trampling an endangered plant species while replacing ...

Fires have always been part of life in the Santa Monica Mountains, but in recent decades ... increasingly drought-stricken climate, and to plant hundreds of new trees. The nonprofit hopes the ...

As of Wednesday afternoon, the Palisades Fire had burned through nearly 24,000 acres, including habitable space for animals and plant life ... lions in the Santa Monica Mountains became desperate ...