Student volunteers have always been a part of Friends of Griffith Park, but this year we have seen a large increase in the number of students and schools providing valuable community service; student volunteers are coming from John Marshall High School, Immaculate...
Volunteers are the boots on the ground and eyes on the prize during the Griffith Park Raptor Survey, a partnership between Friends of Griffith Park and Cooper Ecological Services. Now in its third year, more than 100 volunteers are monitoring their assigned nests in...
What’s that bug? What’s the name of this flower? What kind of bird just flew by? How many times have you asked these questions while out hiking or walking? You can get all your answers about nature identification when you download and use the free...
“We drove “em out and we can help them establish a home here once again,” says Bruce Painter, a Friends of Griffith Park member talking about the colorful Western bluebird, once a regular resident of Griffith Park. Growing up in Louisiana and now...
We often think of the early history of California as beginning with the very first colonists and settlers from Europe who established the cities we know and love. In reality, that slice of history from the textbooks represents such a small and recent fragment of time...