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 Santa
Monica Mountains rise above Los Angeles, widen to
meet the curve of Santa Monica Bay and reach their
highest peaks facing the ocean, forming a beautiful
and multi-faceted landscape. Santa Monica Mountains
National Recreation Area is a cooperative effort
that joins federal, state and local park agencies
with private preserves and landowners to protect the
natural and cultural resources of this transverse
mountain range and seashore. Located in a
Mediterranean ecosystem, the Santa Monica Mountains
contain a wide variety of plants and wildlife. The
mountains also have an interesting and diverse
cultural history which begins with the Chumash and
Gabrielino/Tongva peoples and continues today in
"L.A.'s backyard."
http://santamonicamountains.areaparks.com/
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Curve in the Creek -
Santa Monica Mountains NRA, CA
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"The
Santa Monica Mountains", written by Mathew
Jaffe, photography by Tom Gamache, was recently published by
Angel City Press.
Los Angeles Times review...
Summary - "The Santa Monica Mountains" is
an ambitious book, as sprawling, quirky and varied as the
range itself. More than a coffee table book and just short
of a travel guide, it's nothing less than a love letter to
the wild heart of Los Angeles. Rock and water, fen and glen,
red-tailed hawks vying for a meal, every imaginable kind of
light — Gamache's lens captures it all. In a particularly
stunning shot — at dawn or dusk, it's hard to tell — your
eye takes in a steeply tilted landscape. There's the gnarled
old tree, a frizz of short, dry grass, then the sudden shock
of seeing a coyote calmly staring into the lens, into your
eyes, bold and not at all afraid.”
http://www.wanderingaroundoutdoors.com/NEWS/news.htm#santamonica
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Santa
Monica Mountains
Range on the Edge
by Tom Gamache and Matthew
Jaffe
The Santa Monica Mountains is the only range that
transverses a major metropolitan city in North America,
slicing Los Angeles and defining it, shaping its hills and
its valleys, its canyons and its ocean front. The Santa
Monicas is undeniably a range on the edge of the world,
welcoming the Pacific into its rocky ridges, almost daring
the ocean waves to break at its foothills. The mountains are
dotted with mountain lions, bobcats and mule deer, rock
singers, movie stars and writers, lilies, oaks and steelhead
trout, bikers, hikers and grizzled peaks that seem to kiss
the sky. Along the course of its forty-six-mile span, the
range encompasses Dodger Stadium, Griffith Park, Laurel and
Coldwater canyons, Hollywood, the Hollywood Sign, Beverly
Hills, the Getty Museum, Pacific Palisades and Malibu, to
name only a few points of iconic interest. And these are
mountains that have gone uncelebrated, until now in
The
Santa Monica Mountains: Range on the Edge, a
compelling history and commentary by award-winning writer
Matthew Jaffe, punctuated with 140 breathtaking images
captured by renowned landscape-art photographer Tom Gamache.
This is the definitive biography lovers of the Santa Monica
Mountains have been waiting for, the story of a magnificent
range on the edge of America's edgiest city.
http://angelcitypress.com/smmt.html
http://www.wanderingaroundoutdoors.com/
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The Santa
Monica Mountains Conservancy was established
by the California State Legislature in 1980.
Since that time, it has helped to preserve
over 60,000 acres of parkland in both
wilderness and urban settings, and has
improved more than 114 public recreational
facilities throughout Southern California.
Through
direct action, alliances, partnerships, and
joint powers authorities, the Conservancy's
mission is to strategically buy back,
preserve, protect, restore, and enhance
treasured pieces of Southern California to
form an interlinking system of urban, rural
and river parks, open space, trails, and
wildlife habitats that are easily accessible
to the general public. |
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http://smmc.ca.gov/
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