Invasive plants are overrunning the Santa Monica Mountains, making fires more destructive and more frequent. Thus, ...

There are four species of oak trees the insect has been affecting: the coast live oak, California black oak, canyon live oak, and the Engelmann oak, according to Mace. The coast live oak is the ...

Year-round: oak woodlands and mixed oak-conifer or oak-riparian woodlands. Most abundant where several species of oaks co ... along the immediate Pacific coast and in western deserts; accidental ...

To make sure coastal martens never slip out of human awareness again, in 2010 the Center for Biological Diversity and the Environmental Protection and Information Center (EPIC) filed a scientific ...

Since the gnatcatcher was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1993 — soon after future Center staffer David Hogan filed a listing petition — the Center has been challenging ...