Park rangers for the Santa Monica Mountains are on the hunt for a “promposal” vandal, who scrawled a prom invitation on a rock near Sandstone Peak — the second year in a row the same message ...

A black bear caught in a natural area of the western Santa Monica Mountains on April 23, 2023, south of the 101 Freeway in the Los Angeles area. National Park Service via AP This is the first time ...

For the first time, National Park Service biologists are tracking a black bear in the Santa Monica Mountains. Last month, scientists with the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area ...

National park officials believe P-22 came from the Santa Monica Mountains and somehow navigated the busy freeways. "He had to have crossed the 101 and 405 freeways to get to Griffith Park ...

On Saturday, the unidentified victim, 41, began hiking at about 8 a.m. and suffered a heat-related death while on the trails of Tapia Park ... the Santa Monica Mountains trails were shut down ...

The park embarked on the two-year project, funded by Snap, Inc., the Santa Monica Mountains Fund, and Re:wild, to restore 10,000 trees and 90,000 herbs and shrubs to five sites in Santa Monica ...

Biologists from the National Park Service are tracking an adult black bear that is believed to be the only bear living in the Santa Monica Mountains. The three or four-year-old black bear ...

That includes about eight workers from the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and six workers from Channel Islands National Park. Park rangers fired from the Santa Monica Mountains ...

The only known black bear in the Santa ... Monica Mountains before, but are considered rare: In the early aughts, a dead black bear was found under a landslide in Malibu Creek State Park.