A California Condor, a conservation success story, perched on the sandstone rocks of Zion National Park. Want the illegally fired park...

Photo Credit: Arroyo Seco Foundation Thinking of hitting your favorite trails now that the fires are put out? Bummed to see that trail is...

As we are all too painfullly aware, in January 2025 a large fire swept through Altadena and other foothill communities driven by extreme...

People online- “LA is a desert because there is no water here.” *ALL THE WATER THAT IS HERE* But I don’t blame the people online… with so...

Learn about biodiversity in LA County and get a free coloring page inspired by a mural I painted

Do you love foxes? Do you love very tiny foxes that look like cats and happen to be the apex predators of their ecosystems? Do you love...

Day one, two and three, on the Trans-Catalina Trail were certainly amazing; full of flowers and ocean-cliff views. We had traversed up...

Day 1 and Day 2 on the Trans Catalina Trail were beautiful but the third day of our 37.5 mile thru hike was truly magical. In the photo...

L.A.I.N.A.D: Hello! Thank you for meeting with me, would you mind introducing yourself and saying what do you do for work? Becky...

Day one on the Trans Catalina Trail (a 38.5 mile trail on Catalina Island available for hiking, backpacking, and camping with permits...

Do vault toilets and running water sound like small luxuries that would be nice to have on a multi-day backpacking trip? How about access...

RIP P22. Species loneliness.... "Philosophers call this state of isolation and disconnection “species loneliness”—a deep, unnamed sadness...

Florida and California are often thought of as being polar opposites from one another, but what similarities might they have? Well...

Summer dormancy can be confusing to some when the majority of the country thinks of summer as the "green time". Will just like a tons of...

LA isn't a desert. It's outer space! Well ok... today we are talking about a desert too. I've been watching a lot of 90's Star Trek while...

When I sat down to eagerly watch Season 4 of Stranger Things, I was not planning on thinking about California Native Plants. But only a...

I was approached by Stop The Pacheco Dam Project to design a sticker and t-shirt for their work to "Keep Pacheco Wild" and stop the...

Actually I have no shade to throw... But did you know there are plants that can grown in almost full shade? I did not before starting my...

In Spring of 2021 I took a class to become a certified California Naturalist. The class I took, known as CalNat for short, is, "A...

In spring on 2021 I took a class, the UC California Naturalist Program (CalNat), to get certified as a California Naturalist. Part of the...