Photo Credit: National Park Service It was drizzling and gray, late fall, on the old Rickards Movie Ranch, high in the Santa Monica Mountains, in rural, red-state western Malibu. Bleached skulls were tacked to the outside wall of a stage-set saloon; rusting wagon wheels leaned at angles. A hand-painted sign announced a “Public Hanging, 5PM.”...
Photo Credit: National Park Service Planning has started on the largest wildlife crossing in the world. The privately-funded bridge would allow the endangered Santa Monica mountain lion and other species to dodge safely the insanity of LA traffic. The Ventura Freeway, known to locals as the 101, is a relentlessly busy east-west road that carries...
Photo Credit: Clark Stevens – RCDSMM The mountain lion blamed for a recent mass slaughter of alpacas may have dodged a bullet. But a rancher’s reprieve for the P-45 cougar believed to have torn apart 11 alpacas and a goat last weekend drew international attention to the greater plight of the big cats in the Santa Monica...
