This was the second year of the Griffith Park Nesting Raptor Survey, and volunteer community scientists once again learned about and witnessed nesting raptor behavior in action as they provided important data during the 2018 nesting season. Launched in 2017 in...
As elusive as P-22, Western gray foxes are rarely seen in Griffith Park. One of the earliest studies, as part of the continuing Griffith Park Natural History Survey in 2007, confirmed tracks in the Old Zoo. Later, a bobcat genetics study conducted by carnivore...
This last year, residents of Los Angeles took part in the inaugural year of the Griffith Park Raptor Survey, a citizen-science-led initiative looking to better understand a top predator in an urban ecosystem. Since 2007, Cooper Ecological Monitoring, Inc. has been...
The guest of honor was nowhere to be seen but his presence was everywhere. P-22 did his usual cat thing — he hunkered down in some quiet, cool hidden spot far away from people. But at Park Center his image was everywhere on Sunday, October 22. It was the second...
No offense P-22, but Griffith Park’s reptiles have always intrigued me. I even like the rattlesnakes because they keep rodent populations in check. Seeing a California kingsnake or a ring-necked snake is a special treat which can make me smile for weeks. Even...