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Santa Monica Mountains
Santa Monica Mountains
Located just 16 miles from the UCLA campus, the Santa Monica National Recreation Area offers hiking trails, camp sites, and beautiful sunset views.
Backbone Trail
Backbone Trail
Looking for a challenge? Take this 65 mile one-way hike that carves through the entire range of the Santa Monica Mountains. Enjoy the Mediterranean ecosystem as you encounter vibrant shrubs like the Foothill Penstemon and Purple Nightshade
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Solstice Canyon
Solstice Canyon
Tucked away by Malibu is Solstice Canyon, a recreation site with pleasant running trails, historical ruins, and a family friendly waterfall. Find yourself in the home of acorn woodpeckers and see a red-tailed hawk soaring overhead.
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Satwiwa Native American Indian Culture Center
Satwiwa Native American Indian Culture Center
Learn about the rich history of the Chumash and Tongva/Gabrielino cultures, the original inhabitants of the Santa Monica Mountain range. You can still find some of their intricate pictographs on rocks or caves today!
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Theodore Payne Foundation
Located in the Valley, the Theodore Payne Foundation houses one of the largest nurseries of native plants in Southern California. Visit their site and learn about how they are making a difference for our environment.
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Plant more Natives!
Plant more Natives!
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Channel Islands National Park
Channel Islands National Park
Spanning across five islands, this remarkable landscape and their ocean environment is home to some of the rarest plants. Through millennia, these species have adapted to their unique home, and only in recent can we learn of their rich heritage.
San Miguel Island
San Miguel Island
The smallest of the islands to support a chaparral community, this island was ravaged by severe overgrazing. As herbivores were removed, San Miguel island made a drastic recovery, and displays beautiful coastal sage scrub.
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Santa Cruz Island
Santa Cruz Island
The largest of the Channel islands, Santa Cruz is dominated by a combination of coastal sage scrub and chaparral in the inlands. In an island chaparral ecosystem, species tend to be taller due to lower fire frequency and intensive grazing.
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