TCA’s Annual Meeting Will Take Place on Tuesday December 10th from 6:00pm-7:30pm on Zoom.

Please RSVP Below for the Zoom Link

The meeting will take place over Zoom. Guest speakers will be Bill Hamm from Will Rogers State Historic Park. Miroslava Munguia Ramos from the National Parks Service discussing the effects of the Woolsey Fire on the plants and animals in the Santa Monica Mountains. CD 11 Field Deputy Michael Amster will talk about city projects such as the Dog Park in Temescal Canyon. There will be time allotted for a brief Q&A.

Temescal Canyon Association Annual Meeting

Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 7:00p.m.

“From Devastation to Restoration”, The Woolsey Fire
Learn from Melanie Beck, Outdoor Recreation Planner,
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area- National
Park Service.
“Lessons Learned and Visions of the Future”
Hear Suzanne Goode, Natural Resources Program
Manager, CA Dept. of Parks & Recreation -Angeles District. ,
share her experiences overseeing our natural resources for
40,000 acres in the Santa Monica Mountains and more during
her enduring career.
Join us in the historic Dining Hall at Temescal

Maria Bane Remembered

How do we remember our friend, Maria?
Is it her many years of service on the TCA Board?
Is it her dedication and hard work on the restoration of Los Leones Gateway Park?
Is it her friendliness and willingness to work hard to maintain trails and lead hikes in our mountains?
Is it her pride in her Italian heritage and her family?
Is it her volunteerism?
Is it her little acts of kindness towards others?
Is it her independent spirit?
Is it her being one of our strongest Glamazons?
We think it is all this and more. But, overall, we remember her warm voice and bright smile as she greeted everyone. She is in the sunshine of our days.

ANNUAL MEETING 

Now at Temescal Canyon Dining Hall

MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2018 at 7:00 PM

Joseph T. Edmiston, Pacific Palisades resident and Executive Director of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, discusses how SMMC (smmc.ca.gov) works to preserve parkland and wilderness areas while making them accessible to the general public through partnerships, including the Temescal Canyon Association.

View photos and hear the story of the Malibu Lagoon restoration and wildlife passage projects. Architect Clark Stevens is designing the wildlife corridor over the 101 Freeway at Liberty Canyon (savelacougars.org). See how this overpass is progressing through the
third of four phases of fundraising for the final design and engineering to be completed and how you can help.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2018
At Dining Hall in Temescal Canyon at 7:00 P.M.

Public welcome | Free parking available | Light refreshments

Information: http://www.temcanyon.org
Questions: temcanyonassoc@gmail.com

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September 2016 Newsletter

Los Liones Gateway Park to Remain Parkland

In an email dated November 16, 2013, State Parks Angeles District Superintendent Craig Sap once again affirmed that lower Los Liones Canyon will remain public parkland and the gateway to Topanga State Park. Replying to an email sent out by Palisades Coalition: keepmarquezchartersafe, Superintendent Sap stated:

“To Whom it May Concern,
Contrary to the what is being purported in an email sent out on Friday November 15th, State Parks is not interested nor considering releasing the any part of Topanga State Park including any portion of Los Liones. Certainly you have the right to distribute and ask for signatures to petitions, but please do not include the above part as it may be confusing and disruptive to the process you seek.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me,
Craig Sap
Angeles District Superintendent for State Parks”

Almost 20 years ago, on January 10, 1994, over 150 people heard the California State Park and Recreation Commission vote 7-2 to retain lower Los Liones Canyon as public parkland and not allow it to be sold to a private developer. As reported by the Outlook Mail on January 19, 1994, Commissioner Nathan Rangel made the motion, which mandated that “the parcel remain in public domain and be used only for public purposes.” The motion was amended to “specifically exclude it from any future deliberations.”

Thus ended a 2-year battle over a controversial plan by Kehillath Israel and the Palisades –Malibu YMCA to build their facilities in lower Los Liones Canyon. That plan was initiated by a proposed interagency land swap wherein lower Los Liones Canyon would be traded to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.

The Temescal Canyon Association, environmentalists, parks employees and neighbors opposed placing Los Liones Canyon in private hands. After the California Park and Recreation Commission decision, TCA became the lead organization, working with State Parks, volunteers, and community organizations, to restore the neglected Los Liones Canyon to parkland. Using a $350,000 Department of Transportation matching grant, volunteers removed over 250 tons of tile, metal, concrete, wiring, and non-native plants, mostly by hand. Bridges were built and an entrance sign installed. The rocks at the base of the entrance sign bear the hidden signatures of those who fought for this park. Approximately 300 trees and 500 shrubs were planted, watered, and cared for. Dubbed “the Glamazons” a group of women TCA members dragged hoses, weeded, cut brush, picked up trash, and removed non-natives. Almost 20 years later, some of them continue donating sweat equity to their public park.

Through the last 20 years, Los Liones Gateway Park has been threatened by several proposals for privatization, but they have failed. The most recent is the DWP inclusion of lower Los Liones Gateway Park on its list of properties to be investigated for a distribution station and a concerted effort by a Marquez group to try to convince DWP to place its distribution station in the State Park rather than on the property it owns in the Marquez area.

As Superintendent Craig Sap firmly stated, “. . .State Parks is not interested nor considering releasing the any part of Topanga State Park including any portion of Los Liones.” The Temescal Canyon Association supports State Parks.

Carol Leacock, President
Temescal Canyon Association

1993 Randy Young, Barbara Manaugh, Lamont Jognston, Rite Delessio, Jay Shieldsbr — The Young Family Collection