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 ...

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 ...