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	Topanga Messenger Online - Santa Monica Mountains News and Arts Publication
		It is the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy that has sought to use glyphosate in Edelman Park, not the RCD.
		There is a huge difference between the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.
		RCDs operate on a consensus-based approach with the watershed’s stakeholders, while the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy does not use a consensus-based approach.
	www.topangamessenger.com /articles.asp?SectionID=1&ArticleID=1438 (575 words)

	Biodiversity News - Vol.2 No.3
		Mulholland Drive twists along the spine of the Santa Monica Mountains in the heart of the Conservancy zone, dividing the view between an urban panorama to the north and a mountain vista southward to the ocean.
		Within the region is the 155,000-acre Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, created by Congress in 1978 as a unit of the National Park System, and 40,000 acres of state parks.
		Its ecologist, Paul Edelman, has pinpointed all of the land from the Santa Susanas to Santa Monica that the Conservancy needs to acquire and preserve as wildlife "corridors" linking segments of habitat.
	ceres.ca.gov /biodiv/newsletter/v2n3/conservancy.html (1504 words)

	California - Transportation bill funds go to protect key land in Santa Monica Mountains
		The Nature Conservancy has identified the Santa Monica Mountains as an ecologically significant area and works with the National Park Service and other local partners to protect key parcels of land for inclusion in the park.
		“Solstice Canyon is one of the most pristine and biologically diverse areas within the Santa Monica Mountains,” said E. Remson, project director for The Nature Conservancy in Los Angeles.
		Solstice Canyon boasts one-fifth of the native floral species in the Santa Monica Mountains on just 1/300 of the total land base.
	nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/california/press/trans081805.html (610 words)

	Coast & Ocean Magazine Spring 97
		Since 1978, when the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area was created, the National Park Service has acquired more than 21,500 acres, which, combined with lands acquired by the California State Parks Department, the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, and other partner agencies, have brought the total acreage in the Recreation Area to over 60,000.
		In January 1997, the Foundation's efforts were substantially enhanced when the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy voted to match every dollar raised, up to $2 million, from its share of funds from Proposition A, the Los Angeles County Safe Neighborhood and Parks Act of 1996.
		The Santa Monica Mountains are world famous--not necessarily because of their parklands but because of the communities that continue to spread into them: Malibu, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Bel Air.
	www.coastalconservancy.ca.gov /coast&ocean/sparchive/MEGALOP.HTM (1484 words)

	Senate Approves Feinstein/Schiff Bill to Study Expanding Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to Include 'Rim of the Valley' Corridor
		It has also been endorsed by various environmental organizations, including the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy Altadena Foothills Conservancy, the California Wilderness Coalition, Scenic America, and the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club, as well as the cities of La Canada Flintridge, Glendale, Pasadena, and South Pasadena.
		This corridor consists of parts of the Santa Monica Mountains, Santa Susanna Mountains, San Gabriel Mountains, Verdugo Mountains, San Rafael Hills, Arroyo Seco, and connector areas to the Los Padres and San Bernardino National Forests.
		Under the legislation, the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service would study the suitability of more than doubling the size of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area by including the Rim of the Valley Corridor.
	www.senate.gov /~feinstein/03Releases/r-rimsenate.htm (360 words)

	October 4, 1996 Babbitt Announce Land Acquisition To Help Complete Missing Links In Santa Monica Mountains' Backbone Trail
		Four of the parcels are being purchased from the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy by the Interior Department.
		The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy will receive $3 million for the eight parcels of land which will be administered by the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, a unit of the National Park Service.
		This hiking trail is within Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and, when complete, will be the wilderness-like link from Will Rogers Historic State Park, to the surf at Point Mugu.
	www.doi.gov /news/archives/pr89m.html (376 words)

	Santa Susana Mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The mountains are within the acquisition area for the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, which operates several parks, including Santa Clarita Woodlands Park, Rocky Peak Park, and Happy Camp Canyon Park in the Santa Susana Mountains through the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority.
		The Santa Susana Pass connects the Simi and San Fernando valleys, and separates the Santa Susana Mountains from Simi Hills to the south.
		Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park is located in the Simi Hills, just south of the Santa Susana Pass, at the northwestern edge of the San Fernando Valley.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santa_Susana_Mountains (554 words)

	Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Conservancy zone includes the 155,000 acre (627 km²) Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, created by Congress in 1978, as well as 40,000 acres (162 km²) of state parks, including Topanga State Park, which is within Los Angeles' city limits.
		The 450,000 acre (1,800 km²) "zone" in which the conservancy can acquire land is bounded on the south by the Pacific Coast Highway from Santa Monica to Point Mugu.
		The Conservancy was responsible for the acquisition of the Jordan Ranch in the Simi Hills from entertainer Bob Hope.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santa_Monica_Mountains_Conservancy (346 words)

	Santa Monica Mountains High Places
		Let us hope that the National Park Service and Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy will follow suit and declare some of its lands as Wilderness and return some of their peaks to a wild and wilderness condition by removing roads, buildings, and electronic equipment from the peaks and mounts.
		There are many "high places" in the Santa Monica Mountains called a peak or a mount which have a geography of hope and some hint of wildness and are very sacred.
		The tradition of condors and eagles to nest in the Santa Monica Mountains "high places" can only be recovered and restored by placing young chicks in protective enclosures that are fed and then released when ready to fly after a few months.
	www.geocities.com /Yosemite/Gorge/5604/santamonicamountainspeaks.htm (2702 words)

	City of Malibu v. Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy
		The Conservancy was created by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy Act, Public Resources Code sections 33000-33215 (Act), to acquire and manage property and award grants to other governmental and nonprofit agencies for recreational, open space, park and conservation purposes in the Santa Monica Mountains.
		The Streisand Center is operated and managed by respondent Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority (MRCA), a joint powers authority consisting of the Conservancy, the Conejo Recreation and Park District, and the Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District.
		It filed an action to obtain a declaration that the Conservancy is not immune from local regulation and an injunction to prohibit commercial use of the property until an alleged violation of the California Coastal Act is resolved.
	www.law.com /regionals/ca/opinions/may/b151606.shtml (1910 words)

	Governor's Budget - 3810 Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy
		The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy acquires, restores and consolidates lands in the Santa Monica Mountains for park, recreation and conservation purposes.
		Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy (pdf * - 16K) in pdf format.
		Includes the legal citations (state statutes, federal statutes, and court orders) for operation of department programs and activities.
	www.govbud.dof.ca.gov /StateAgencyBudgets/3000/3810/department.html (289 words)

	Park Search LAMountains.com
		The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy zone covers an area from the edge of the Mojave Desert to the Pacific Ocean.
		The zone encompasses the whole of the Santa Monica Mountains, the Simi Hills, the Verdugo Mountains and significant portions of the Santa Susana and San Gabriel Mountains.
		From north to south, these areas drain into the Santa Clara River, Calleguas Creek, numerous smaller coastal watersheds in the Santa Monica Mountains, and the Los Angeles River and Rio Hondo.
	www.lamountains.com /parks_search.asp (224 words)

	Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy
		The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy is a state agency created by the California Legislature in 1979.
		The Conservancy owns and manages parkland in the Santa Susanas, the Simi Hills, the Santa Clarita Woodlands, the Whittier/Puente Hills, the Sierra Pelona Mountains, the Verdugos, the San Gabriels, the San Rafael Hills, and the Los Angeles River Greenway Project and Rio Hondo.
		This trail allows you to hike across the Santa Monica Mountains from Franklin Canyon to Coldwater Canyon Park and Wilacre Park.
	www.etreking.com /eTreking/Pages/SantaMMtsCon.html (1031 words)

	RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCY BOND APPROPRIATIONS AS INCLUDED IN THE STATE BUDGET
		The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy was established by the California State Legislature in 1980.
		City Council support the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy appropriations as included in the California State budget by the State Legislature.
		The appropriations are from park and water bonds (Proposition 12, 40, and 50) that are specifically designated to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.
	www.santa-clarita.com /cityhall/agendas/council/print_item_html.asp?ID=1043 (247 words)

	University considers selling property in Santa Monica Mountains
		Zev Yaroslavsky met with officials from Soka University of America and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy earlier this week after learning the university would consider a sale.
		Los Angeles -- A private university financed by a Buddhist sect will consider selling its 588-acre property in the Santa Monica Mountains to be used as park land, a county supervisor said Thursday.
		Environmentalists want to preserve the rugged terrain of the the Santa Monica Mountains, northwest of Los Angeles, but developers want to build homes.
	www.rickross.com /reference/gakkai/gakkai25.html (303 words)

	Land speculator poised to cash in again in Santa Monica Mountains
		A 2001 state law that was passed aimed at closing most of the exemptions, but Sweeney is negotiating with the state's Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy to buy his acreage overlooking the Malibu coast.
		Sweeney bought his Santa Monica Mountains parcels in 2001 after earning a $24 million profit from selling 1,226 acres in Monterey County's Big Sur.
		Sweeney's 147-acre oceanfront Sand Hill Bluff property in Santa Cruz County is a partnership with New Jersey-based WS Investments.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/03/27/state1406EST7527.DTL (1123 words)

	Santa Monica Mountains Rec Area
		In 1983 he sold the land to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy who then in 1987 sold it to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
		This area of the Santa Monicas is the northernmost section of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
		The Santa Monica Mountains rise above Los Angeles, widen to meet the curve of Santa Monica Bay, and reach their highest peaks at over 3,000' facing the open ocean.
	www.etreking.com /eTreking/Pages/SantaMonicaMtRecArea.html (2443 words)

	Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy
		The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy works together with many government and nonprofit agencies to achieve the mutual goal of an interlinking network of parks, trails, and open space for public use and wildlife habitat surrounding the great metropolitan areas of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties.
		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.
		Central to their success is the ability to complement the work of other organizations protecting land in the Southern California mountains by using unique techniques to acquire and improve open space and parklands, affording educational opportunities, and providing stewardship for a wide variety of public park and open space resources.
	smmc.ca.gov /partners.html (744 words)

	California Valley Corridor Study Act scrutinized
		These activists, in particular, the American Land Rights Association, are saying the maps being distributed by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy deliberately try to hide the full impact of S153 and HR 355 by how they have shaded the areas on the map.
		The study area will encompass 491,518 acres, which is nearly three and a half times the size of the existing Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
		Another complaint being made by American Land Rights Association and its supporters is that the U.S. Park Service has not paid the landowners in the Santa Monica Mountains all that it owes them in the last 27 years for that National Recreation Area.
	www.wlj.net /editorial/022105_ca_valley_corridor_scrutinized.asp (961 words)

	Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Reserve
		Its value is further enhanced by its location adjacent to extensive natural areas, including state (State Department of Parks and Recreation) and federal (Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area) parklands and areas managed for conservation purposes by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy (SMMC) and the Mountains Restoration Trust (MRT).
		Set in the southernmost mountains of the Transverse Ranges, the Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve is located in the Cold Creek watershed of Malibu Creek, perhaps the most pristine and biologically diverse watershed in the Santa Monica Mountains.
		ocated in the heart of the Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve is a rich deposit of prehistoric artifacts dating from 3,000 B.C. to 1,000 A.D. This is a significant archaeological site, offering researchers and students an opportunity to study the changing adaptations of human populations in the the Santa Monica Mountains.
	nrs.ucop.edu /Reserves/Stunt.html (2032 words)

	Rim Of The Valley Items
		The Rim of the Valley consists of parts of the Santa Monica Mountains, the Santa Susanna Mountains, the San Gabriel Mountains, the Verdugo Mountains, the San Rafael Hills, and adjacent connector areas to the Los Padres and San Bernardino National Forests according to Congressman Adam Schiff.
		One example is that Santa Monica Mountains NRA is well known for being a park where the Park Service was sued and ultimately had to pay large damages for initiating a raid against an innocent rancher, Donald Scott, who was killed in the raid.
		S 347 is called the Rim of the Valley Corridor Study Act and would study expanding the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area by adding a corridor of all the mountains surrounding the San Fernando Valley, La Crescenta Valley, Santa Clarita Valley, Simi Valley and Conejo Valley.
	www.corva.org /Latest_Issues/rimOfTheV.html (2160 words)

	Wild Mountains
		The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy is a government organization with a mission to preserve and enlarge open space in the Santa Monica Mountains.
		The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area encompasses more than 150,000 acres and provides a haven for 450 animal species, including such rare species as the golden eagle, mountain lion and bobcat.
		The Santa Monica Mountains Land Protection plan was submitted in 1998.
	www.acfnewsource.org /environment/wild_mountains.html (635 words)

	FR Doc 03-1003
		The National Park Service has invited the California Department of Parks and Recreation and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy (SMMC) to be cooperators in the preparation of the TMP.
		The greater Santa Monica Mountains trail network adjacent to the NRA [[Page 2357]] features over 80 additional miles of public trails, several of which are linked to the NRA network.
		Comments should be addressed to the Superintendent, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Attn: Interagency Regional Trail Management Plan, 401 W. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360.
	a257.g.akamaitech.net /7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2003/03-1003.htm (1253 words)

	Partners restore wetlands in the Santa Monica Mountains NRA--National Park Service--WASO-INFO
		Representatives from the National Park Service, California Department of Fish and Game, California Department of Parks and Recreation, Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains, and Santa Monica Bay Restoration Project met to discuss the problem.
		The wetlands and surrounding riparian areas and uplands have been reduced and heavily impacted by long-term dumping of debris and surplus fill.
		The National Park Service, Department of Beaches and Harbors, and Bay Restoration Project were assigned the lead for the restoration project.
	www2.nature.nps.gov /YearinReview/yir98/chapter05/chapter05pg5.html (842 words)

	Welcome to the TNC Connection
		This map was produced by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.
		a corridor of all the mountains surrounding the San Fernando Valley, La Crescenta Valley, Santa Clarita Valley, Simi Valley and Conejo Valley in
		Recreation Area that is 153,750 acres and over two thirds the size of
	www.vtc.net /~jfkeeler/articles3/stop.htm (265 words)

	California Coastal Commission,City Council,Malibu Beaches
		The conservancy has been buying land near the Santa Susana pass to safeguard the movement of wildlife between the Santa Monica and Santa Susana Mountains, a route that was documented by a study completed by The Nature Conservancy in the 1990s.
		The long arm of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy has stretched into Chatsworth where a property owner is crying foul about the conservancy's efforts to safeguard a wildlife corridor that begins in the Santa Monica Mountains.
		Linda Corbridge, who owns 40 acres she wants to develop off the 118 Freeway in the Santa Susana foothills, claims the conservancy is denying her access to her land through a 10-foot buffer the conservancy owns.
	www.malibutimes.com /articles/2004/05/12/news/news5.txt (522 words)

	Reclamation
		Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy - The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy is a state agency created by the California State Legislature in 1979.
		Since then, the Conservancy has acquired more than 35,000 acres of parkland in the 450,000 acre zone comprised of the Santa Monica Mountains and adjacent mountain ecosystems surrounding the Los Angeles Basin, including the Santa Clarita Woodlands Park adjacent to Sunshine Canyon Landfill.
		Sunshine Canyon is at the extreme eastern end of the Santa Susana Mountains.
	www.csun.edu /~vceed002/BFI/reclamation.html (410 words)

	California Valley Corridor Study Act scrutinized
		These activists, in particular, the American Land Rights Association, are saying the maps being distributed by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy deliberately try to hide the full impact of S153 and HR 355 by how they have shaded the areas on the map.
		Sisson said, “Congress authorized the Santa Monica Mountains to be preserved 30 years ago, and as of today, they still haven’t purchased it.
		Another complaint being made by American Land Rights Association and its supporters is that the U.S. Park Service has not paid the landowners in the Santa Monica Mountains all that it owes them in the last 27 years for that National Recreation Area.
	www.wlj.net /editorial/022105_ca_valley_corridor_scrutinized.asp (961 words)

	ipedia.com: San Fernando Valley Article
		The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy and its affiliated agencies have purchased or otherwise acquired many of these lands, which are maintained as parkland by the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, California State Parks, or local parks districts.
		The San Fernando Valley is bounded by the Santa Susana Mountains to the northwest, The Simi Hills to the west, the Santa Monica Mountains to the south, the Verdugo Hills to the east, and the San Gabriel Mountains to the northeast.
		The San Fernando Valley is bounded by the Santa Susana Mountains to the northwest, The Simi Hills to the...
	www.ipedia.com /san_fernando_valley.html (1061 words)

	US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
		The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy is the principal agency of the State of California charged with protection of open space and the natural resources of almost three quarters of a million acres surrounding the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
		In 1978 Congress established the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area acknowledging that it was a special area, almost unique in the park system, in that the National Recreation Area would be administered cooperatively with the state, regional, and local governments.
		There is every indication that including the Rim of the Valley Corridor within the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area will have the same positive effect upon the protection of ecological communities and the well-being of human communities in northern Los Angeles and eastern Ventura counties.
	energy.senate.gov /hearings/testimony.cfm?id=615&wit_id=1650 (862 words)

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