I’m re-attaching the Brush photos where the brush has literally fallen onto Entrada Road, blocking part of the lane going down Entrada Road to Topanga Canyon Blvd. It’s extremely dangerous, not only to traffic, but an incredible fire hazard. This area is just above the Dead Horse Parking Lot, 1/16 to 1/8 mile up Entrada.

Also, the meadow across from our house at 21056 Entrada Road, which is part of Topanga State Park used to be cleared every year for fire prevention. The meadow is all dead weeds as well as dead thistle, which I was told by the Park Service is invasive and should be removed.

If you walk in on the 92 trail entrance on Entrada Rd., about 200 feet up Entrada, there is a wood bridge for water drainage shortly after you walk onto the trail. At some point the State Park cut up some trees and moved dead tree limbs and branches stacked in the weeds along the trail just before you cross over the wood plank bridge. The bridge has a “Saw Horse type Warning� where the bridge has a hole in it. This has been like this for several years, and has never been repaired!

What the heck is going on? The State Park used to take care of the park. The 92 trail is also overgrown, leading from Entrada to near the Trippet Ranch Parking Lot. Then the Musch Trail that leads to the campground from Trippet Ranch is also completely overgrown. It is not safe because of rattlesnakes. With the weeds on the trail you cannot see them. Come fall, it will be even more dangerous on the overgrown trails with ticks that can badly infect people with lyme disease.

Mr. Blattel can be reached at: david@davidblattel.com; or (310) 600-9869.

To contact Timothy Pershing, Sr. Field Deputy to Assemblymember Richard Bloom: tim.pershing@asm.ca.gov.

To contact Rosi Dagit, Sr. Biologist for the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains: rdagitrcd@gmail.com