More programs return to Placerita Canyon Nature Center
Ranger Frank Hoffman handles Catori, a 9-and-a-half-year-old barn owl housed at the Placerita Canyon Nature Center, on Sunday afternoon. March 28, 2021. Bobby Block / The Signal.

More programs return to Placerita Canyon Nature Center

Santa Clarita Valley residents have more opportunities to get out in nature, as some of the Placerita Nature Center’s most popular programs make a return, including its twilight hike this…

Breakfast time at the Placerita Canyon Nature Center
A woodpecker eats breakfast on the trunk of a tree at the Placerita Canyon Nature Center early Sunday morning on March 1, 2020. Gilbert Bernal/The Signal

Breakfast time at the Placerita Canyon Nature Center

A woodpecker sits on the branch of a tree at the Placerita Canyon Nature Center on Sunday, March 1, 2020. Gilbert Bernal/The Signal A woodpecker eats breakfast on the trunk…

Missing hiker found uninjured in Placerita Canyon State Park
Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station Search and Rescue personnel and deputies escort Amanda Glover, a lost hiker, out of the Placerita Canyon State Park on Sunday, March 1, 2020. Gilbert Bernal/The Signal

Missing hiker found uninjured in Placerita Canyon State Park

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies went hiking Sunday morning to search for a woman that was lost after hiking in the Placerita Canyon Nature Center area. “I was hiking…

UPDATE: Hiker missing in Placerita Canyon is found
Rescue helicopter team joins Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station deputies in search for hiker missing in Placerita Canyon. Courtesy photo, SCV Sheriff

UPDATE: Hiker missing in Placerita Canyon is found

Search resumed at dawn Wednesday for a hiker reported missing in Placerita Canyon since shortly after midnight Tuesday — and, after 16 hours of missing in the cold and wet…

Nature Center to host ‘BioBlitz’
Barn owl Catori flaps his wings as volunteer Roger McClure leads the weekly Native Live Animal Presentation at the Placerita Canyon Nature Center on Saturday. Dan Watson/The Signal

Nature Center to host ‘BioBlitz’

Though the Placerita Canyon Nature Center hosts its community education series every month, this month is going to be special, according to Ranger Frank Hoffman, head ranger and recreation services…

Search and rescue team gives talk on safe hiking at Placerita Canyon Nature Center
Santa Clarita Search and Rescue deputies from th Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department give a safe hiking seminar at the Placerita Nature Center in Newhall Sunday afternoon. Cory Rubin/The Signal

Search and rescue team gives talk on safe hiking at Placerita Canyon Nature Center

The Placerita Canyon Nature Center held a session with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Search and Rescue officials about hiking safety on Sunday. Reserve deputy Tony Pepe, civilian volunteer Robert…

Eleven animals who love spring just as much as we do
An adult male Costa’s Hummingbird. The Costa’s is usually a summer visitor so it makes sense to me that it’d be here, albeit a bit early; they typically live in Mexico as a year-round resident. When I get a definite confirmation I’ll write you again.A hummingbird goes from flower to flower at Sand Canyon Country Club in Santa Clarita on Tuesday. Dan Watson/The Signal

Eleven animals who love spring just as much as we do

The weather is getting warmer and the flowers are blooming — spring is here. It’s the season where everything is growing and coming to life, even the animals, which means…

Nature center gives presentation on urban bears
Natural areas administrator Kim Bosell talks with Frank Hoffman, recreation services supervisor at Placerity Canyon nature Center following her presentation about black bears in urban areas. Ryan Mancini/The Signal

Nature center gives presentation on urban bears

While bears have learned to live alongside humans, visitors to the Placerita Canyon Nature Center learned about what that coexistence entails and how people can deescalate problems in a presentation…

Holiday Craft Fair returns to Placerita Canyon Nature Center
Daisy Collupy, 4, of Acton decorates her snowman, one of the craft stations for children and families at the annual Holiday Craft Fair on Saturday which has been held at the Placerita Canyon Nature Center for more than 35 years in Newhall. Dan Watson/The Signal

Holiday Craft Fair returns to Placerita Canyon Nature Center

The Placerita Canyon Nature Center is bringing back its annual Holiday Craft Fair on Saturday.

The SCV’s best picnic spots
Dave Tye, left, celebrates his 58th birthday with his family at the picnic area at Castaic Lake State Recreation Area Lower Lake lagoon on October 03, 2018. (Photo by Dan Watson)

The SCV’s best picnic spots

Summer may be synonymous with picnics, but I think fall is a much better time of year to dine al fresco — especially in the Santa Clarita Valley, where summer…

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