This is the remarkable tale of California native gardens and the fire-resistant wisdom rooted in Indigenous planting. The Ancient Roots of Fire-Resistant Landscaping Long before California’s ...

Learn about native plants for free from the experts April 26-27 at the L.A. Times Plants' Native Plant Booth at the Festival of Books.

The Swinhoe’s White-eye—a small yellow bird native to Asia—has rapidly spread throughout the state and beyond in the past ...

California's diverse array of landscapes – beaches ... Sharael Kolberg is a U.S. News & World Report contributor who is a native Californian and has lived in Northern, Central and Southern ...

Longtime user of the La Jolla trail and the volunteer group that maintains it disagree on what’s best for the ecosystems ...

The mining companies permanently altered the California landscape, choked its rivers with sediment, and repeatedly buried thousands of acres of low-lying farms. At one farm, the peak of the ...

For decades, California 4th-graders have studied the Golden State: its geography, people and history. Now, historians and Native American teachers are pushing to broaden that curriculum to include ...