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Jalama Beach, along California's Central Coast, offers oceanside camping in one of the most desolate locations available.
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With Memorial Day weekend signaling summer vacation season, a congressional report looks at the damage of the sequester.
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Damage is less extensive than had been feared, but the castle and its immediate evirons will stay closed until everything's back to normal.
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A fire of unknown cause is burning near the historic Scotty's Castle in Death Valley National Park, and part of the park near the castle has been closed to visitors.
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Ojai is very near to Los Angeles, but the land of fruit and wine feels like another planet.
A collapsed live oak seen after the Springs Fire in the Santa Monica Mountains. | Photo: Courtesy National Park Service
With the 24,000-acre Springs Fire fully controlled, officials in the Santa Monica Mountains are beginning restoration, making sure habitat and…
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Miles of pathways throughout the Santa Monica Mountains will reopen after full control of a wildfire that ripped through 24,000 acres earlier this month.
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The ranger, accompanied by his dog, was fishing around sunset at Crescent Beach. At some point, he noticed the canine being chased by a mountain lion.
The landscape around the La Jolla Trail after the Springs Fire. | Photo: Courtesy National Park Service
Much of the public outreach to the National Park Service and California State Parks has been to ask how they can help the 14,000 acres of burned parkland.
A staircase along the Discovery Trail in Schulman Grove. | Photo: Zach Behrens/KCET
With snow melting, access to one of the coolest places in California has opened.
This expert outdoorswoman from Colorado found new challenges in her urban L.A. hiking adventure.
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It's a fairly rare event for a bat to contract rabies, and the rate of transmission of rabies from bats to humans is low: about 10 cases in North America since the 1970s.
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