Speaker Jorge Ochoa is back to discuss the latest science on how fires regularly affect this vast wilderness. The 2018 brush fire of 63 acres in Griffith Park’s Condor Canyon give us yet another living laboratory to study devastation and recovery. If...
A Dicey Beginning “Griffith Park is an ideal location for a zoological garden,” an editorial gushed in the July 1907 Los Angeles Times. The idea fit perfectly with Col. Griffith’s vision, when he created the park in 1896, that it be “a place of...
The plentiful rains Southern California received this winter thankfully moved the region out of a long-lasting intense drought that persisted from 2011 to 2017. Hills surrounding the Los Angeles Basin — including the peaks and valleys of Griffith Park —...
Curiosity. Besides “killing the cat,” there are many profound alternative sayings about it. “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious,” said Einstein. “Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret,” said Emerson. In...
No plant typifies Griffith Park better than buckwheat. California buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum) is found throughout the Park year-round and shows itself proudly on slopes as a coastal scrub species. Buckwheat blossoms and seeds are long-lasting, with coloration...
