The National Park Service will host public meetings to introduce the Rim of the Valley Corridor Special Resource Study and answer questions from the public.

The local meetings will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Wed., Sept. 22 at Conejo Recreation and Park District community room, 403 W. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks, and Mon., Oct. 4 at King Gillette Ranch dormitory building, 26800 W. Mulholland Hwy., Calabasas.

The initial public comment period extends through Oct. 29.

The study will look at the potential for expanding the boundary of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA), a unit of the National Park System since 1978.

The area includes 150,000 acres of private, local, state and federal lands under a partnership umbrella in which the federal government owns about 25 percent of the land.

The study looks at resources in a given area to determine whether they meet the criteria for addition to the National Park System and offers recommendations for resource protection and public use.

The study takes into account existing land uses, current land management efforts and private property rights.

The study area covers more than 650,000 acres of the mountains encircling the Conejo Valley of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, as well as other land.

For more information, call Anne Dove, project manager, at (323) 441-9307 or visit www.nps.gov/pwro/ rimofthevalley.