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Santa Monica Mountains

Index Santa Monica Mountains

The Santa Monica Mountains is a coastal mountain range in Southern California, paralleling the Pacific Ocean. [1]

138 relations: Agoura Hills, California, Alluvium, Archaeology, Arundo donax, Bel Air, Los Angeles, Bell Canyon, California, Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, Beverly Glen Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California, Boney Peak, Brentwood, Los Angeles, Cahuenga Pass, Cahuenga Peak, Calabasas, California, California, California chaparral and woodlands, California Coastal Commission, California Department of Parks and Recreation, California kingsnake, California oak woodland, California State Route 27, Castro Peak (California), Centaurea solstitialis, Chalk Hills, Channel Islands (California), Chumash people, Coastal plain, Cold War, Coldwater Canyon Avenue, Conejo Valley, Conservation easement, Cougar, Crescenta Valley, Crotalus oreganus helleri, Delairea, Distinct population segment, Downtown Los Angeles, Ecoregion, Elysian Park, Los Angeles, Encino, Los Angeles, Endemism, Estuary, Exchange Peak, Franklin Canyon Park, Garter snake, Griffith Park, Habitat, Hedera, Hollywood, Hollywood Hills, ..., Hollywood Sign, Interstate 405 (California), Invasive grasses of North America, Invasive species, Juglans californica, Land-use planning, Laurel Canyon Boulevard, Leo Carrillo State Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Basin, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles River, Los Angeles Times, Los Feliz, Los Angeles, Malibu Creek, Malibu Creek State Park, Malibu Ozarks, Malibu, California, Marvin Braude Mulholland Gateway Park, Mount Lee, Mulholland Drive, Mulholland Highway, National Park Service, Naval Base Ventura County, New Zealand mud snail, Noxious weed, Oxnard Plain, Pacific Ocean, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, Parallel (geometry), Phys.org, Pituophis, Plant community, Point Dume, Point Mugu State Park, Point Mugu, California, Project Nike, Rain, Rainbow trout, Raymond Fault, Riparian zone, Runyon Canyon Park, Saddle Peak (California), San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Mountains, San Vicente Mountain Park, Sand dune ecology, Sandstone Peak, Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Santa Susana Mountains, Sedimentary rock, Sepulveda Boulevard, Sepulveda Pass, Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, Simi Hills, Simi Valley, Snow, Southern California, Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish missions in California, Spartium, Studio City, Los Angeles, Tarzana, Los Angeles, Thousand Oaks, California, Tongva, Topanga State Park, Topanga, California, Transverse Ranges, Treaty of Cahuenga, Tri Peaks (Santa Monica Mountains), U.S. Route 101 in California, University of California, Los Angeles, Ventura County Star, Ventura County, California, Verdugo Mountains, Vinca major, Volcano, West Hills, Los Angeles, Western fence lizard, Westlake Village, California, Westside (Los Angeles County), Wildfire, Wildlife corridor, Will Rogers State Historic Park, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, 1978 Agoura-Malibu firestorm. Expand index (88 more) »

Agoura Hills, California

Agoura Hills is a city in Los Angeles County, California.

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Alluvium

Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock) soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting.

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Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Arundo donax

Arundo donax, giant cane, is a tall perennial cane, is one of several so-called reed species.

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Bel Air, Los Angeles

Bel Air (or Bel-Air) is a neighborhood in the Westside area of Los Angeles, California, in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains.

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Bell Canyon, California

Bell Canyon is an unincorporated community in eastern Ventura County, California, United States.

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Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles

Benedict Canyon is an area in the Westside of the city of Los Angeles, California near Sherman Oaks northwest of Beverly Hills.

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Beverly Glen Boulevard

Beverly Glen Boulevard is one of five major routes that connect the Westside of Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley (the other four are the San Diego (405) Freeway, Sepulveda Boulevard), Laurel Canyon Boulevard, and Coldwater Canyon Avenue.

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Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills is an affluent city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, surrounded by the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood.

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Boney Peak

Boney Peak, also known as Mount Boney, is a peak in the Santa Monica Mountains in Ventura County, in Southern California.

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Brentwood, Los Angeles

Brentwood is a neighborhood in the Westside of Los Angeles, California.

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Cahuenga Pass

The Cahuenga Pass (from the indigenous Tongva language), elevation, is a low mountain pass through the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains in the Hollywood district of the City of Los Angeles, California.

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Cahuenga Peak

Cahuenga Peak is the 12th-highest named peak in the Santa Monica Mountains and is located just west of the Hollywood Sign.

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Calabasas, California

Calabasas is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located in the hills west of the San Fernando Valley and in the northwest Santa Monica Mountains between Woodland Hills, Agoura Hills, West Hills, Hidden Hills, and Malibu, California.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California chaparral and woodlands

The California chaparral and woodlands is a terrestrial ecoregion of lower northern, central, and southern California (United States) and northwestern Baja California (Mexico), located on the west coast of North America.

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California Coastal Commission

The California Coastal Commission is a state agency in the U.S. state of California with quasi-judicial regulatory oversight over land use and public access in the California coastal zone.

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California Department of Parks and Recreation

The California Department of Parks and Recreation, also known as California State Parks, manages the California state parks system.

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California kingsnake

The California kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula californiae) is a nonvenomous colubrid snake endemic to the western United States and northern Mexico.

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California oak woodland

California oak woodland is a plant community found throughout the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion of California in the United States and northwestern Baja California in Mexico.

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California State Route 27

State Route 27 is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that runs from Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) at Topanga State Beach near Pacific Palisades, through Topanga Canyon including the community of Fernwood Pacific also known as Topanga, and continuing through Woodland Hills, Canoga Park, West Hills, and Chatsworth to Ronald Reagan Freeway.

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Castro Peak (California)

Castro Peak, at, is the highest peak in the middle part of the Santa Monica Mountains and is in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.

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Centaurea solstitialis

Centaurea solstitialis, yellow star-thistle, is a member of the family Asteraceae, native to the Mediterranean Basin region.

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Chalk Hills

The Chalk Hills are a north—south running low 'mountain' range in the San Fernando Valley perpendicular to and adjoining the Santa Monica Mountains.

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Channel Islands (California)

The Channel Islands are an archipelago of eight islands located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California along the Santa Barbara Channel in the United States of America.

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Chumash people

The Chumash are a Native American people who historically inhabited the central and southern coastal regions of California, in portions of what is now San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties, extending from Morro Bay in the north to Malibu in the south.

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Coastal plain

A coastal plain is flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).

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Coldwater Canyon Avenue

Coldwater Canyon Avenue (designated as Coldwater Canyon Drive south of Mulholland Drive) is a street, primarily within the City of Los Angeles, in Los Angeles County, California.

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Conejo Valley

The Conejo Valley is a region spanning both southeastern Ventura County and northwestern Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States.

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Conservation easement

In the United States, a conservation easement (also called conservation covenant, conservation restriction or conservation servitude) is a power invested in a qualified private land conservation organization (often called a "land trust") or government (municipal, county, state or federal) to constrain, as to a specified land area, the exercise of rights otherwise held by a landowner so as to achieve certain conservation purposes.

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Cougar

The cougar (Puma concolor), also commonly known as the mountain lion, puma, panther, or catamount, is a large felid of the subfamily Felinae native to the Americas.

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Crescenta Valley

The Crescenta Valley is a small inland valley in Los Angeles County, California, lying between the San Gabriel Mountains on the northeast and the Verdugo Mountains and San Rafael Hills on the southwest.

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Crotalus oreganus helleri

Crotalus oreganus helleri is a venomous pit viper subspecies found in southwestern California and south into Baja California, Mexico.

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Delairea

Delairea is a plant genus within the family Asteraceae.

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Distinct population segment

A distinct population segment is the smallest division of a taxonomic species permitted to be protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

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Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, as well as a diverse residential neighborhood of some 58,000 people.

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Ecoregion

An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than an ecozone.

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Elysian Park, Los Angeles

Elysian Park is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California, encompassing Chavez Ravine, with a mostly low-income community of 2,600+ people.

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Encino, Los Angeles

Encino is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Endemism

Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Exchange Peak

Exchange Peak is, after Sandstone Peak and with Tri-Peaks, one of the highest points in the Santa Monica Mountains with an elevation of.

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Franklin Canyon Park

Franklin Canyon Park is a public park located near Benedict Canyon at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains.

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Garter snake

Garter snake (in addition to ribbon snake) is a common name for the nearly harmless, small to medium-sized snakes belonging to the genus Thamnophis.

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Griffith Park

Griffith Park is a large municipal park at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains, in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

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Habitat

In ecology, a habitat is the type of natural environment in which a particular species of organism lives.

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Hedera

Hedera, commonly called ivy (plural ivies), is a genus of 12–15 species of evergreen climbing or ground-creeping woody plants in the family Araliaceae, native to western, central and southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern Africa and across central-southern Asia east to Japan and Taiwan.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Hollywood Hills

The Hollywood Hills are a part of the Santa Monica Mountains and also a hillside neighborhood of the same name in the central region of the city of Los Angeles, California.

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Hollywood Sign

The Hollywood Sign (formerly the Hollywoodland Sign) is an American landmark and cultural icon located in Los Angeles, California.

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Interstate 405 (California)

Interstate 405 (usually pronounced four-oh-five), also known as I-405 or colloquially as "the 405", is a major north–south Interstate Highway in Southern California.

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Invasive grasses of North America

Grasses are one of the most abundant floras on all continents except Antarctica.

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Invasive species

An invasive species is a species that is not native to a specific location (an introduced species), and that has a tendency to spread to a degree believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy or human health.

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Juglans californica

Juglans californica, the California black walnut, also called the California walnut, or the Southern California black walnut, is a large shrub or small tree (up to 30 feet tall) of the walnut family, Juglandaceae, endemic to California.

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Land-use planning

In urban planning, land-use planning seeks to order and regulate land use in an efficient and ethical way, thus preventing land-use conflicts.

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Laurel Canyon Boulevard

Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a major street in the city of Los Angeles.

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Leo Carrillo State Park

Leo Carrillo State Park is a state park of California, United States, and a component of Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area preserving of beach at the foot of the Santa Monica Mountains.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles Basin

The Los Angeles Basin is a sedimentary basin located in southern California, in a region known as the Peninsular Ranges.

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Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (LAC BOS) is the five-member governing body of Los Angeles County, California.

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Los Angeles County, California

Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, is the most populous county in the United States, with more than 10 million inhabitants as of 2017.

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Los Angeles River

The Los Angeles River (L.A. River) starts in the Simi Hills and Santa Susana Mountains and flows through Los Angeles County, California, from Canoga Park in the western end of the San Fernando Valley, nearly southeast to its mouth in Long Beach.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Los Feliz, Los Angeles

Los Feliz is a hillside neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California, abutting Hollywood and encompassing part of the Santa Monica Mountains.

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Malibu Creek

Malibu Creek is a year-round stream in western Los Angeles County, California.

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Malibu Creek State Park

Malibu Creek State Park is a state park of California, United States, preserving the Malibu Creek canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains.

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Malibu Ozarks

Malibu Ozarks is a term sometimes used derogatorily (or ironically) of inland land or property within the U.S. geographical zip code of 90265, receiving mail to Malibu, California, which lacks a traditional Malibu ocean view.

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Malibu, California

Malibu is a beach city in western Los Angeles County, California, situated about west of Downtown Los Angeles.

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Marvin Braude Mulholland Gateway Park

Marvin Braude Mulholland Gateway Park is a park in the Santa Monica Mountains, with its trailhead at the southern terminus of Reseda Boulevard in Tarzana, Los Angeles, California.

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Mount Lee

Mount Lee is a peak in the Santa Monica Mountains, located in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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Mulholland Drive

Mulholland Drive is a street and road in the eastern Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California.

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Mulholland Highway

Mulholland Highway is a scenic road in Los Angeles County, California, that runs approximately 50 miles through the western Santa Monica Mountains from near US Route 101 (Ventura Freeway) in Calabasas to Highway 1 (Pacific Coast Highway) near Malibu at Leo Carrillo State Park and the Pacific Ocean coast - at the border of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.

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Naval Base Ventura County

Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) is a United States Navy base located near Oxnard, California.

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New Zealand mud snail

The New Zealand mud snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) is a species of very small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum.

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Noxious weed

A noxious weed, harmful weed or injurious weed is a weed that has been designated by an agricultural authority as one that is injurious to agricultural or horticultural crops, natural habitats or ecosystems, or humans or livestock.

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Oxnard Plain

The Oxnard Plain is a large coastal plain in southwest Ventura County, California, United States surrounded by the mountains of the Transverse ranges.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles

Pacific Palisades is a coastal neighborhood in the Westside of the city of Los Angeles, California, located among Brentwood to the east, Malibu and Topanga to the west, Santa Monica to the southeast, the Santa Monica Bay to the southwest, and the Santa Monica Mountains to the north.

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Parallel (geometry)

In geometry, parallel lines are lines in a plane which do not meet; that is, two lines in a plane that do not intersect or touch each other at any point are said to be parallel.

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Phys.org

Phys.org is a science, research and technology news aggregator where much of the content is republished directly from press releases and news agencies-in a practice known as churnalism.

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Pituophis

Pituophis is a genus of nonvenomous colubrid snakes commonly referred to as gopher snakes, pine snakes, and bull snakes, which are endemic to North America.

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Plant community

A plant community (sometimes "phytocoenosis" or "phytocenosis") is a collection or association of plant species within a designated geographical unit, which forms a relatively uniform patch, distinguishable from neighboring patches of different vegetation types.

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Point Dume

Point Dume is a promontory on the coast of Malibu, California that juts out into the Pacific Ocean.

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Point Mugu State Park

Point Mugu State Park is a state park located in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in Southern California.

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Point Mugu, California

Point Mugu, California (Ventureño: Muwu, "Beach") is a cape or promontory within Point Mugu State Park on the Pacific Coast in Ventura County, near the town of Port Hueneme and the city of Oxnard.

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Project Nike

Project Nike, (Greek: Νίκη, "Victory", pronounced), was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Laboratories, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system.

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Rain

Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then becomes heavy enough to fall under gravity.

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Rainbow trout

The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a trout and species of salmonid native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America.

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Raymond Fault

The Raymond Fault is a fault across central Los Angeles County and western Ventura County in Southern California.

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Riparian zone

A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream.

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Runyon Canyon Park

Runyon Canyon Park is a park in Los Angeles, California, at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains, managed by the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.

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Saddle Peak (California)

Saddle Peak is a mountain located in the Santa Monica Mountains between Malibu and Calabasas.

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San Fernando Valley

The San Fernando Valley is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, California, defined by the mountains of the Transverse Ranges circling it.

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San Gabriel Mountains

The San Gabriel Mountains are a mountain range located in northern Los Angeles County and western San Bernardino County, California, United States.

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San Vicente Mountain Park

San Vicente Mountain Park is a former Nike Missile Radar/Control Site in Southern California.

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Sand dune ecology

Sand dune ecology describes the biological and physico-chemical interactions that are a characteristic of sand dunes.

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Sandstone Peak

Sandstone Peak, also known as Mount Allen, is a mountain in Ventura County, California, and the highest summit in the Santa Monica Mountains with an elevation of.

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Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy

The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy is an agency of the state of California in the United States founded in 1980 and dedicated to the acquisition of land for preservation as open space, for wildlife and California native plants habitat Nature Preserves, and for public recreation activities.

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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area is a United States National Recreation Area containing many individual parks and open space preserves, located primarily in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California.

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Santa Susana Mountains

The Santa Susana Mountains are a transverse range of mountains in Southern California, north of the city of Los Angeles, in the United States.

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Sedimentary rock

Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the deposition and subsequent cementation of that material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water.

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Sepulveda Boulevard

Sepulveda Boulevard is a major street and transportation corridor in the City of Los Angeles and several other cities in western Los Angeles County, California.

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Sepulveda Pass

Sepulveda Pass (elevation) is a low mountain pass through the Santa Monica Mountains in Los Angeles.

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Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles

Sherman Oaks is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, founded in 1927 with boundary changes afterward.

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Simi Hills

The Simi Hills are a low rocky mountain range of the Transverse Ranges in eastern Ventura County and western Los Angeles County, of southern California, United States.

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Simi Valley

Simi Valley is a synclinal valley in Southern California in the United States.

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Snow

Snow refers to forms of ice crystals that precipitate from the atmosphere (usually from clouds) and undergo changes on the Earth's surface.

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Southern California

Southern California (colloquially known as SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises California's southernmost counties.

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Spanish colonization of the Americas

The overseas expansion under the Crown of Castile was initiated under the royal authority and first accomplished by the Spanish conquistadors.

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Spanish missions in California

The Spanish missions in California comprise a series of 21 religious outposts or missions established between 1769 and 1833 in today's U.S. State of California.

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Spartium

Spartium junceum, commonly known as Spanish broom or weaver's broom, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae.

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Studio City, Los Angeles

Studio City is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California, in the San Fernando Valley.

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Tarzana, Los Angeles

Tarzana is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California.

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Thousand Oaks, California

Thousand Oaks is the second-largest city in Ventura County, California, United States.

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Tongva

The Tongva are Native Americans who inhabited the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands, an area covering approximately.

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Topanga State Park

Topanga State Park is a California state park located in the Santa Monica Mountains, within Los Angeles County, California.

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Topanga, California

Topanga is a census-designated place (CDP) in western Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Transverse Ranges

The Transverse Ranges are a group of mountain ranges of southern California, in the Pacific Coast Ranges physiographic region in North America.

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Treaty of Cahuenga

The Treaty of Cahuenga, also called the "Capitulation of Cahuenga," ended the fighting of the Mexican–American War in Alta California in 1847.

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Tri Peaks (Santa Monica Mountains)

Tri Peaks is, after Sandstone Peak, one of the highest points in the Santa Monica Mountains with an elevation of.

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U.S. Route 101 in California

U.S. Route 101 (US 101) in the state of California is one of the last remaining and longest U.S. Routes still active in the state, and the longest highway of any kind in California.

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University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, United States.

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Ventura County Star

The Ventura County Star is a daily newspaper published in Camarillo, California and serves all of Ventura County.

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Ventura County, California

Ventura County is a county in the southern part of the U.S. state of California.

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Verdugo Mountains

The Verdugo Mountains are a small, rugged mountain range of the Transverse Ranges system, located just south of the western San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County, Southern California.

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Vinca major

Vinca major, with the common names bigleaf periwinkle, large periwinkle, greater periwinkle and blue periwinkle, is species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae, native to the western Mediterranean.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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West Hills, Los Angeles

West Hills is an affluent residential and commercial neighborhood in the western San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California.

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Western fence lizard

The western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis) is a common lizard of Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Northern Mexico, and the surrounding area.

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Westlake Village, California

Westlake Village is a city in Los Angeles County on its western border with Ventura County.

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Westside (Los Angeles County)

The Los Angeles Westside is an urban region in western Los Angeles County, California.

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Wildfire

A wildfire or wildland fire is a fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or rural area.

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Wildlife corridor

A wildlife corridor, habitat corridor, or green corridor is an area of habitat connecting wildlife populations separated by human activities or structures (such as roads, development, or logging).

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Will Rogers State Historic Park

Will Rogers State Historic Park is the former estate of American humorist Will Rogers.

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Woodland Hills, Los Angeles

Woodland Hills is a neighborhood bordering the Santa Monica Mountains in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California.

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1978 Agoura-Malibu firestorm

The 1978 Agoura-Malibu firestorm was a firestorm fueled by at least eight significant wildfires in the Los Angeles area on October 23, 1978.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Monica_Mountains

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