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Malibu Creek State Park is a California state park in the Santa Monica Mountains near Malibu, in Calabasas. It opened to the public in 1976. Malibu Creek State Park stretches from below Malibu Lake in the west to Piuma Road in the east. It follows the creek down to the Pacific Ocean and includes... the Adamson House and creek's mouth in the Malibu Lagoon at the beach and Pacific Ocean. Tapia Park has recently been incorporated as a subunit of the park. The park includes three natural preserves: The park has diverse plant habitats of coastal sage scrub, chapparal, and California oak woodland. The various native plants and wildflowers are listed in the Flora of the Santa Monica Mountains and Flora of Malibu Creek State Park. The plants in the park's Malibu Lagoon section is listed in the Flora of Malibu Lagoon. The area is habitat for fauna such as: mountain lions, bobcats, mule deer, golden eagles, and southern steelhead. In order to promote steelhead runs, the obsolete 1920s Rindge Dam is slated to be removed from lower Malibu Creek. The majority of the park's lands were donated by Bob Hope.
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Now a part of Malibu Creek State Park, the Century Movie Ranch was purchased in 1946 by 20th Century Fox for outdoor shooting. Sold to the state of California in 1974, it was opened as a recreational area in 1976 feature films, such as Pleasantville continue to be filmed here. Fox bought the park,... along with some adjoining properties, in 1946 after using the area for filming How Green Was My Valley in 1941. The ranch was used for many movies and TV shows, it was the permanent base for the exteriors for M*A*S*H, and was used in the Planet of the Apes movies.
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