On May 29th, 2022 the Baldwin Hills Greenhouse Program wrapped up its 14th school year. The program was a balancing act of online and in-person activities at Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook. Despite the pandemic, Greenhouse students proved themselves to be both committed and adaptable. We fortunate to be able to collaborate with Cal Poly Pomona’s Questad Lab and Jen Toy of the USC Landscape Architecture program this year. The annual Cactus Commencement Ceremony - the culminating event where students present their work to an audience – was reinstated as an in-person event this year. Students led friends, family, alumni, and program collaborators through a series of environmental education stations that showcased the knowledge and skills that students had gained over the year.
INTERPRETING NATURE The Park to Playa Trail — Walk Your Watershed
Adapting to pandemic conditions has pushed many of us to seek outdoor adventures close to home, visiting spots we may have overlooked or even dismissed in the past. The Park to Playa Trail is an ideal candidate to visit for a walk in a local watershed here in Los Angeles, with 13 continuous miles traversing the Ballona Creek Watershed from the Baldwin Hills all the way to Dockweiler Beach. Plan it right, and you can have your own birding big day, visiting coastal sage scrub habitat, manicured parklands with established tree cover, paved and less-paved stretches of Ballona Creek, and then beach habitat. Basically, gnatcatchers to oystercatchers on a single urban trail.
Baldwin Hills Greenhouse Program — Research Projects, 2020-2021 School Year
On May 18th, 2021 the Baldwin Hills Greenhouse Program wrapped up its 13th school year. The challenges of the pandemic required us to conduct the program entirely through online Zoom sessions. We focused on spectacularly local nature, with students observing and documenting what they could find in their apartment complexes, backyards, and neighborhoods.
Western Snowy Plover Monitoring Program
Western Tanager, Vol. 84 No. 6, Jul-Aug 2018
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Western Tanager, Vol. 84 No. 6, Jul-Aug 2018
• Book Review: The Dragonflies and Damselflies of Santa Barbara County, California | Kimball L. Garrett
•Green Feather Award Winner 2018: “Let Her Play” | Aisling Murray
• INTERPRETING NATURE: Baldwin Hills Greenhouse Program Research | Stacey Vigallon
• YOUNG BIRDERS: A New Discovery - Our Rufous Hummingbirds Molt in the Mexican Monsoonal Region | Dessi Sieburth
• Birds of the Season: June 2018 | Jon Fisher
Western Tanager, Vol. 84 No. 1, Sep-Oct 2017
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Western Tanager, Vol. 84 No. 1, September-October 2017
PHOTO ESSAY: Audubon Docents: The Things We Saw, By Photo Essay | By Cindy Hardin, Director of Outdoor Education and Photos by Leslie Davidson
YOUNG BIRDERS: Project Puffin — Audubon’s Seabird Restoration Project in Maine | By Dessi Sieburth
Coots Make Me Smile, By Contributing Author, Bev‐Sue Powers, (www.BallonaPhotography.com)
INTERPRETING NATURE: Aspiring Botanist Goes Plant‐hunting from Baldwin Hills to Yosemite, By Arely Mendia Perez, Environment for the Americas Intern, and Stacey Vigallon, Director of Environmental Education
Birds of the Season – August 2017, By Jon Fisher
Western Tanager, Vol. 83 No. 4, Mar-Apr 2017
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ON THE COVER —Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Photo by Mary Freeman
Birds of the Season – Feb. 2017, by Jon Fisher
A Wet, Wet, Wetland, By Cindy Hardin, Director of Outdoor Education & Volunteer Coordinator
Los Angeles County’s Breeding Bird Atlas Now Available
INTERPRETING NATURE: Being a Biologist for a Day is a Great Excuse to Get Out to the Beach!, Stacey Vigallon, Director of Environmental Education |Photos by Stacey Vigallon
Hang in There, I’ll Get To It In A Bit, Louis Tucker, L.A. Audubon Field Trip Leader
YOUNG BIRDERS: Birds are Citizens of the World: Protecting our Migrating Birds, By Dessi Sieburth
Western Tanager, Vol. 82 No. 6, Jul-Aug 2016
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• ON THE COVER: Tejon Ranch Landscape Fields of Gold (May 2016) | Photo by Jason Koenig
• ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Jason Koenig
• TEJON RANCH: At Last We Get to Go Back up To the Mountain ‐ How ‘Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Away From The Ranch? | By Louis Tucker, Field Trip Leader for Los Angeles Audubon
• YOUNG AUTHORS: My Trip to Alaska | By Dessi Sieburth
• INTERPRETING NATURE: 2015-2016 Greenhouse Intern project abstracts | By Stacey Vigallon, Director of Interpretation, and the Baldwin Hills Greenhouse Interns
• Let's Get Outside | By Cindy Hardin, Director of Outdoor Education
• Birds of the Season—June 2016 | By Jon Fisher
• PRESS RELEASE: Your Breeding Bird Atlas Arriving Soon | By Larry Allen
Western Tanager, Vol. 82 No. 3, Jan–Feb 2016
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• Sanctuary Golf Program Nurtures Birdies of a Different Feather, By Lisa Freeman
• INTERPRETING NATURE: From Los Angeles to California’s wild landscapes, and back., By Emily Cobar, Greenhouse Program Alumna, and Stacey Vigallon, Director of Environmental Education
• YOUNG AUTHORS: The California Gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica), By Dessi Sieburth
• Grateful for Grants, California State Parks Foundation
• Birds of the Season — December 2015, By Jon Fisher
Western Tanager, Vol. 82 No. 2, Nov-Dec 2015
Worm-eating Warbler on Dec 28, 2014, 115th CBC | Photo by Don Sterba
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• President’s End‐of‐the‐Year Appeal, By Margot Griswold, Los Angeles Audubon Board President and Education Chair
• Los Angeles Audubon Society Receives Disney Conservation Grant 2015
• INTERPRETING NATURE: A (Mostly) Native Garden, By Joyce Realegeno, Greenhouse Program Alumni, and Stacey Vigallon, Director of Environmental Education
• YOUNG AUTHORS: Volunteering at the Christmas Bird Count — You Never Know What Bird You’ll Find, By Dessi Sieburth
• NATURE CORNER: The Western Spadefoot Toad: Poster Child (Amphibian!) for Past, Present and Future, By Cindy Hardin, Director of Outdoor Education
• Ralph W. Schreiber Ornithology Research Awards for 2016: Call for Applications, By Ryan J. Harrigan, Grants Committee Chairman
• Birds of the Season — October 2015, By Jon Fisher