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2020 THEODORE PAYNE NATIVE PLANT GARDEN TOUR
The Theodore Payne Native Plant Garden Tour is a unique adventure: a two-day self-guided journey through the Los Angeles region’s most beautiful and inspiring home landscapes.
Flight Risk
From weary migratory songbirds to breeding shorebirds and wintering waterfowl, millions of birds rely on tattered Gulf Coast habitats to survive.
Biologists recommend urgent action to protect California spotted owls
In the Pacific Northwest, the range expansion of Barred Owls has contributed to a conservation crisis for Northern Spotted Owls, which are being displaced from their old-growth forest habitat.
Calvert bill proposing new wildlife refuge in Southern California passes committee
The U.S. House Natural Resources Committee advanced a bipartisan bill that would establish land at a home-state wildlife preserve as a new wildlife refuge and ensure public access and enhanced recreation opportunities.
A New Phacelia Hidden in Plain Sight
The plant doesn’t have a name yet, but the team is leaning toward P. damnatio to commemorate the location of Damnation Pass.
Extreme low tides reveal a spectacular underwater world
A two-spotted octopus wrapped its long arms across Jim Serpa’s fingers; a rock crab safely tucked itself inside a hideout; and sandcastle worms tightly gathered in masses to cover large rocks.
The Vanishing Butterfly Groves of California
Action is urgently needed to address the challenges facing monarch butterfly overwintering sites.
To avert climate disaster, look to land: study
Humans now actively manage more than half of the ice-free land on Earth – what we might call our “working lands.”
The Vanishing Butterfly Groves of California
Action is urgently needed to address the challenges facing monarch butterfly overwintering sites.
Why we need a variety of ways to protect wildlife
We must fight for the Endangered Species Act and build up other lines of defense