A Late Winter Walk in the Park
Pick a walk through a natural habitat and hike it once a month for a year. You’ll never have the same walk twice.
Tag Archives: Urban Wilderness
To the Coyote Brush that Didn’t Make It
Coyote brush is a tough, scrappy survivor, often overlooked and under appreciated.
To Wonder View and Beyond!
Besides city views and apex predators, there is also show biz!
Checking In with the Yard
So far all the plants have survived with the exception of the island morning glory dug up by my co-gardener, Rocky the dog. Even the native grasses he ate grew back fine.
Estes Park and the Battle for Spring
The calendar said it was Spring, but Spring was still duking it out with Winter up in the Colorado Rockies.
Ballona Freshwater Marsh
Not far from the L.A. coastline, at the corner of Lincoln and Jefferson is a small marsh.
Living with the Coyote
Intelligent, resourceful, creative, coyotes have thrived under persecution where other animals were vanquished
Look Ma! I’m Making a Wilderness!
So plant a few natives in the yard and call it a day, eh? I wish.
Murphy Ranch: Nature, Graffiti, Intrigue
Between the multi-million dollar houses of the Pacific Palisades and Will Rogers State Park sits Murphy Ranch where truth and myth blended together.
Succession
“In a few months the wonderful flowery vegetation is in full bloom and by the end of May it is dead and dry and crisp, as if every plant had been roasted in an oven.” –John Muir
Concrete Chaparral 