News & Updates
Bird LA Day in Griffith Park — Year One
May 2015 Based on the response to the launch of Bird LA Day on May 2nd, this is an event that's long overdue! Friends of Griffith Park sponsored a hike with...
Folk Gardens in Griffith Park and Remembrances of the Captain
First published in Griffith Park Reporter/Winter 2014-15 Folk gardens in Griffith Park were established by three separate men in the 1940s. Captain's Roost is...
Friends of Griffith Park Host FOLAR’s Annual LA River Cleanup
April, 2015 FOGP Boardmembers, Felix Martinez, Miguel Ordeñana and Marian Dodge join FOLAR founder, Lewis MacAdams at the Bette Davis Picnic Site. On...
Griffith Reporter Winter 2014-15
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Fern Canyon Restoration Project
First published in Griffith Park Reporter/Winter 2014-15 In 2007, fire devastated huge swaths of Griffith Park, including the Fern Canyon area near the...
Inspiring Outdoor Connections in Griffith Park
First published in Griffith Park Reporter/2014 FoGP boardmember Miguel Ordeñana (on right) provides kids with park and safety information during some of the...
Become a Griffith Park Citizen Scientist
First published in Griffith Park Reporter/2014 The internet has greatly enhanced the availability of data for scientists worldwide. Referred to as...
Rodenticides — The Legislative Front
First published in Griffith Park Reporter/Winter 2014-15 Friends of Griffith Park has been vocal in asking the City and the State to do their part to reduce...
Western Gray Squirrel Genetics Study Begins
First published in Griffith Park Reporter/Winter 2014-15 The western gray squirrel, Griffith Park's only indigenous tree squirrel species, is losing traction...
Anza Trail Traverses Griffith Park
You've probably hiked the trail along the LA River in Griffith Park not realizing you are walking in the footsteps of families who walked along this trail to...
Commercial Deals Begin to Transform the Old Zoo Area in Griffith Park
Publicly-traded giant Live Nation, sporting $6.5 billion in gross revenue last year, has taken an equity stake in the Haunted Hayride and the Horror Campout...
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 fences, shelters, picnic tables, trash...
FOLAR Cleanup on Saturday, April 11th
FoGP is hosting the Bette Davis Picnic Area Site for the FoLAR River Cleanup (La Gran Limpieza). Register online...
Native Planting at Captain’s Roost, Sunday, April 12th
FoGP will be coordinating a native planting in one of Griffith Park's "folk" gardens, devastated by the 2007 fire which destroyed nearly 1,000 acres. To...
Griffith Park Fees
Urban parks are not businesses. On the contrary, they are respites from the commercialization we encounter everywhere else in our metropolis. The current...
Park Rangers Required
With the elimination of L.A.'s park security force, Rangers in Griffith Park are needed now, more than ever... Interior discussions are underway at City Hall...
One of America’s 12 Most Threatened Landscapes
The Cultural Landscape Foundation, an influential Washington D.C. non-profit dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding of America's cultural...
Spring turns to summer: time to explore and enjoy Griffith Park’s natural and human heritage
Griffith Observatory Director, Dr. Ed Krupp, famously calls his copper-domed museum of the cosmos, the "hood ornament of Griffith Park." We humbly submit that...
NBC Universal Proposal Studied by Friends of Griffith Park
Here is the letter filed by FOGP in response to the NBC Universal Evolution proposed project. The NBC Universal Evolution project promises to deliver "43,000...
Crystal Springs Picnic Area
It's been a favorite gathering place for Angelenos for decades. If your family or community group had a big event, chances are you met here at the Crystal...
Planning Fern Dell’s Revival
There is exciting news about Fern Dell. The Griffith J. Griffith Charitable Trust has donated a very generous amount to Friends of Griffith Park for the Fern...
On Any Given Day
On any given day running in the park is a renewing experience. It starts in the parking lot with the camaraderie of seeing other runners. I belong to a...
Friends of Griffith Park and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency see eye-to-eye on Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills expansion
Joining the massive NBC Universal development proposal now in its Environmental Impact Report (EIR) stage another Griffith Park neighbor, Forest Lawn...
UCLA Bobcat Study Finds Wild Cats and More in Griffith Park
Griffith Park is an island of natural habitat for native bobcats, allowing these beautiful and elusive creatures to exist in our congested metropolis. With...
Zoo Pressured to Introduce Parking Fees to Griffith Park
In our public transit-deprived metropolis, charging to park in a regional park is tantamount to an admission fee. Currently, the Greater Los Angeles Zoo, a...
Preventing a “Silent Spring’
How Griffith Park neighbors can help put an end to the pesticide poisoning of wildlife The 50th Anniversary of Silent Spring is a good time to take a look at...
Nature education continues to delight urban kids
Working with the Sierra Club's Inner City Outing Committee, Friends of Griffith Park has exposed some 320 students from Los Angeles area urban schools to the...
City Puts Privatizing the Operation of the Los Angeles Zoo on Fast Track
Since its establishment as a rent-free tenant of Griffith Park in 1912, the Los Angeles Zoo has been supported in the main by tax-paying citizens. Currently,...
KCET’s Blistering Documentary: Billboards in City Parks
Update: June, 2017 This is clearly a topic that refuses to go away as evidenced by a recent move in downtown city hall. In 2011, Friends of Griffith Park...
Billboard lobby still working to blight parks
To date, at least 44 organized advocacy groups, residential associations, and neighborhood councils have registered their opposition to the changes to the...
Griffith Park Master Plan Identity Crisis
After three years of public meetings, the Working Group, the citizens' panel rewriting the commercialized 2005 Draft Master Plan for Griffith Park, submitted...
Just Released: Griffith Park Natural History Survey’s “Rare Plants of Griffith Park’
With its diverse terrain, deep valleys, ridgelines, and even natural spring-fed drainages, Griffith Park boasts multiple vegetative habitats. Of the nearly...
Acting to Save the Park’s Historic Fabric
In his award-winning PBS film, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, documentarian Ken Burns devotes an entire episode to the Civilian Conservation Corps...
Auto-free Interior Park Roads – Good for Recreation and Wildlife
Fall 2013 Mt. Hollywood Drive and Vista del Valle Drive have been closed permanently to vehicular traffic since the early 1990s. The closure of these...
Utility Charges Continue to Devastate Parks Budget
Fall 2013 The City's relatively new policy of mandating cost recovery (charge- backs) for services continues to decimate the Department of Recreation...
Wild About Mushrooms in Griffith Park
With luck, Griffith Park received a small dose of rain just before experts arrived in LA to help with the first official Griffith Park Mushroom Survey. The...
Highlights of Year 2013
During 2013, Friends of Griffith Park have continued to make extraordinary things happen! Supporting special preservation initiatives in Griffith Park. Our...
Griffith Park: An Urban Wilderness
The City of Los Angeles owns and operates more than 400 parks, some of which are unique properties with designated roles. With over 4200 acres of naturally...
Griffith Park Wildlife Management Plan
Until 2007, few formal wildlife surveys had ever been conducted in Griffith Park, and virtually no trained naturalists had ever published or even taken notes...
Griffith Park Natural History Survey
More information coming soon... In the meantime please click here to visit the Griffith Park Natural History web site and view the results of wildlife...
