After the soil is laid across the nearly 1-acre native wildlife habitat site, about 5,000 native shrubs and wildflowers ...

The spindly stalks and yellow flowers of black mustard ... the Mountains Recreation Conservation Authority and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. One day, I stopped by the visitor center, which ...

After the Palisades Fire sparked in the Santa Monica Mountains, invasive grasses and other plants that had dried up over the rainless winter caused the blaze to burn through the hills at an ...