Environmental News

A curated set of environmental news stories brought to you by the Gottlieb Native Garden team.

Audubon Starr Ranch

The Audubon Starr Ranch Sanctuary is an amazing example of what wild California used to be.

Milkweed Seed Finder

By including milkweeds in gardens, landscaping, wildlife habitat restoration projects, and native revegetation efforts, you can provide breeding habitat for monarchs as well as a valuable nectar source for butterflies, bees, and other beneficial insects.

Ask the Master Gardener: Inviting bees to your garden — The best of the pollinators

How can we address the needs of so many bees? Knowing about native bees in general can help us meet this challenge.

A great time to mix it up in the garden

Chesler doesn’t work from a top-down garden design. He lets the garden evolve according to his current interests.

The Future for Birds

Two-thirds of North American birds are at increasing risk of extinction.

Crucial O.C. wildlife corridor hits a freeway roadblock

Coastal bobcat and fox survival could depend on a better path for getting to the other side of Interstate 5.

1 billion birds en route to California

The greatest aerial show on Earth, the migration of 1 billion birds on the Pacific Flyway to California, is a full go this week as early winter weather hits Canada.

On the California Coast, It’s Cattle Versus Elk

Point Reyes National Seashore is once again at the center of a heated debate

Scientists Implant False Memories into Bird Brains

And they learn new songs.

Perennial bunchgrasses liven up home and garden in the fall

The smallest sprouts show there is really no death