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RCDSMM – Your Partner in Conservation

Become a direct part of healing the Santa Monica Mountains

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WILD CITY IS BACK!

Check out this season's workshops

EPA Palisades Fire Hazardous Waste Staging Site

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Support efforts to heal our mountains in the wake of recent fires

Learn about fire recovery efforts from your RCDSMM

LOOKING FOR WILDFIRE RESILIENCE INFORMATION?

From home ignition zone evaluations, defensible space consulations, hazardous vegetation removal and more, peruse our site to find the information and program that’s right  for you!

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ENDANGERED STEELHEAD RESCUED FROM TOPANGA CREEK

Your RCDSMM helped partners to rescue and transfer steelhead trout out of Topanga Creek ahead of devastating mudslides.

Read the LA Times article

ENDANGERED GOBIES RESCUED FROM FIRE IMPACTED TOPANGA LAGOON

Your RCDSMM, thanks to partners at USFWS, USGS, State Parks, LACDBH and LA Coutny Lifeguards, rescued over 750 tidewater gobies from Topanga Lagoon.

Read the LA Times coverage of the rescue effort

Native oaks could be a solution to the dangerous fire feedback loop in Malibu

Read Noah Haggerty's LA Times article here

CHECK OUT OUR WILDFIRE EDUCATION VIDEO SERIES

Our team recently created a series of short videos promoting wildfire-wise practices you can implement around your home and landscape.

Help Create Wildfire Resilient Communities

DISCOVER LOCAL CONSERVATION STORIES FEATURING YOUR RCD

Read articles featuring local conservation

Education & Outreach

A leader in environmental education and community outreach since 1964, our standards-based programs get students into nature or bring nature to the students, and offer rigorous scientific learning and research opportunities.

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Habitat Restoration

RCDSMM partners with public and private landowners to restore native habitat, to prevent the spread of invasive species, and to protect and create green space and migration corridors for sensitive wildlife throughout the Santa Monica Mountains.

LEARN MORE ABOUT HABITAT RESTORATION

Research & Monitoring

The first step toward protecting our resources is understanding them. Our biologists work with public and private entities, citizen scientists, students, and volunteers of all ages to study sensitive species, native habitats, streams and lagoons.

LEARN MORE ABOUT RESEARCH AND MONITORING

Landowner Assistance

Good land stewardship is essential to a healthy environment. We help landowners assess and plan low impact projects, convert lawns to thriving native landscapes, reduce erosion, combat invasive species, and save water.

LEARN MORE ABOUT LANDOWNER ASSISTANCE

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Organizational Equity Statement

At RCDSMM, we believe equity is the intentional effort to bring balance to previously imbalanced systems – be they ecological, social or historic. Equity, therefore, is vital to the practice of conservation. We invite our diverse and vibrant community into our sacred work of stewarding the land, and ultimately reconciling and strengthening reciprocal relationships among all humans and nonhumans within our shared home. We commit to ensuring that the envisioning, authorship and implementation of the work that we do is representative of the full range of communities who have and will experience the land we share.

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