Jeff Sikich knows mountain lion P-22 better than anyone. He first captured P-22 in March 2012 in order to place...
Jeff Sikich’s Feb. 25th Lecture Focuses on Mountain Lion Populations in LA
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Preservation Articles
Who Owns Wildlife? Law and the Birth of the Preservation Movement
Few people have heard of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, but the idea behind this landmark law reaches back to...
Walking the Fern Dell Stream
Worth preserving: Fern Dell's unique fusion of Picturesque and Park Styles In 1914, the L.A. Parks Department decided...
California Leads Nation With Bobcat Trapping Ban
California Department of Fish and Wildlife will no longer issue commercial permits to trap and kill bobcats after a...
Native Intelligence
Spring 2012 The Griffith Park Natural History Survey reaches its five-year milestone The recent confirmation of...
Fern Canyon Restoration Project
First published in Griffith Park Reporter/Winter 2014-15 In 2007, fire devastated huge swaths of Griffith Park,...
Rodenticides — The Legislative Front
First published in Griffith Park Reporter/Winter 2014-15 Friends of Griffith Park has been vocal in asking the City...
Despite finding of illegality, plan still afoot to sell advertising in parks
from 2012 In fall of 2011, the city was poised to allow supergraphics promoting Warner Bros. 3-D movie "Yogi Bear," on...
One of America’s 12 Most Threatened Landscapes
The Cultural Landscape Foundation, an influential Washington D.C. non-profit dedicated to increasing awareness and...
$10,000 National Grant Awarded to Fern Dell Project
Fall 2013 Friends of Griffith Park is thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a $10,000 grant from the...
Griffith Park: A Historical Cultural Landmark
On Christmas Day 1896, Colonel Griffith J. Griffith gifted Los Angeles with Griffith Park, the heart and lungs of our...
The Unintentional Consequences of Rat Bait
Wildlife continues to be threatened by these potent toxins: Brodifacoum, Bromadiolone, Difenacoum, and Difethialone....