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We are about education, and we are here to help you!
This is our fourth and final video for 2024! Our "Wild About Wildlife" sprint featured Cathy Schoonmaker, a biologist with the National Park Service. Her expertise includes the ecology of bobcats, coyotes, and mountain lions in the urban fragmented landscapes of Southern California, including the Santa Monica Mountains.
Our third "Wild about Wildlife" sprint featured Rebecca Dmytryk, owner of Humane Wildlife Control Inc. Rebecca is an Agoura High Alumna who has worked with wildlife since the early 1980s and is a leading authority on wildlife capture. She has over a decade of trial and error experience in barn owl nest box design and function.
Our second "Wild About Wildlife" sprint featured Korinna Domingo and Kelsey Bernard of Cougar Conservancy. We are grateful to the team for sharing their expertise and insights on coexisting with cougars in our area.
We kicked off our Old Agoura Homeowners "Wild About Wildlife" sprint with Cambria Wells, Education and Outreach Manager, California Wildlife Center (CWC). It was wonderful and we are so grateful to have CWC so close to Agoura Hills!
We had our first webinar of 2021 on March 31st! The topic was coexisting with mountain lions. Our presenters were Cathy Schoonmaker of the National Park Service and Korinna Domingo of Cougar Conservancy. The video is 1:01 minutes.
Our second webinar of 2021 on May 19th!
Cathy Schoonmaker of the National Park Service and Carolyn Trocino of Poison Free Agoura talked about how people, pets, and pumas are impacted by rodent poisons. The webinar provided information on how to repel, exclude, and deter rodents without poisons. The video is 46:50 minutes.
Our third webinar of 2021 on July 8th!
Denys Hemen, Hospital Manager of the California Wildlife Center gives us information on what to do if we encounter injured wildlife and more! The video is 44:50 minutes.
We had our 4th webinar of 2021 on August 6th!
Justin Brown, Wildlife Ecologist with the National Park Service provides great insight on how to coexist with coyotes.
The video is 1:02 minutes.
Our 5th webinar of 2021 transpired on November 9th!
Cathy Schoonmaker of the National Park Service (NPS) shares information on Raptors in the Santa Monica Mountains and NPS studies on raptor perches and owl boxes.
Bambi Corso-Steinmeyer of Poison Free Conejo Valley introduces us to her Nextdoor Thousand Oaks Owl Box Enthusiasts group and her owl box project. Carolyn Trocino, Poison Free Agoura shares information on what she learned from installing raptor perches and more! The video is 37.52.
Our first webinar of 2022 transpired on March 30th! John Lauermann, Sharon Shingai, and Zeev Nitzan Ginsburg of the Herp Connection provide information on the variety of snakes and lizards we have in our area as well as information on how to coexist with snakes. The video is 1:04:28.