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TreePeople was founded in Los Angeles in 1973 by an 18-year-old activist Andy Lipkis. [2] Lipkis and a group of other teenagers began planting trees three years prior at summer camp in the San Bernardino Mountains. [2] Lipkis heard that smog from Los Angeles was drifting up to the mountains and killing the forest. He rallied his fellow campers ...
Tongva Park is a 6.2-acre (2.5 ha) park in Santa Monica, California. [1] The park is named after the indigenous Tongva people, who have lived in the Los Angeles area for thousands of years.
Topanga State Park (/ t ə ˈ p æ ŋ ɡ ə / ⓘ) is a California state park located in the Santa Monica Mountains, within Los Angeles County, California. It is part of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. The park is located adjacent to the community of Topanga, within the City of Los Angeles.
For more than 50 years, Los Angeles' historic Commonwealth Nursery in Griffith Park grew millions of plants for the city's parks and public spaces, but the 12-acre nursery fell into disrepair ...
For the story “The greatest trees of Los Angeles,” writer Ryan Bradley and photographer Devin Oktar Yalkin went on a quest to find the city's most beloved trees.Among their many finds: the ...
(Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times) By one estimate, just 3% of the park's Douglas fir trees remain. Among the redwoods, "the new growth that's coming up from the roots is just amazing.
The Arboretum was founded in 1893 by the Los Angeles Horticultural Society, and planting of rare trees continued through the 1920s. Most of the original trees are still standing. The Arboretum was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1967. View of the trees. Trees in the Arboretum include: Acacia dealbata; Acer (maple)
Los Angeles paid $12,500 to raze a native plant garden in Elysian Park to protect a metal storage shed from fire. ... with dense stands of mature native trees and shrubs lining the paths of the ...