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Spooky season is here…step into our haunted native garden IF YOU DARE! From a stem parasite that can “see” and “smell” its hosts to a charming but deadly flower, here are five of the creepiest native plants you can find growing around SoCal: California dodder (Cuscuta californica) Have you ever noticed a strange, orange, spaghetti-like…
The western monarch population has reached a near record low. According to the Xerces Society, fewer than 10,000 butterflies were found overwintering in California during their annual monarch count last winter—the second lowest number recorded since tracking began in the 90s. Unfortunately, these beloved and essential pollinators face a myriad of threats across their migratory…
Life in the big city is REALLY tough for trees. While trees in the wild often live 100 years or more, the average lifespan of an urban tree is just 19 to 28 years, according to the USDA. What accounts for this discrepancy? Well, many of our urban environments aren’t built for trees—they’re built for…
Here at TreePeople, we do a LOT of planting—in 2024 alone, we put more than 11,000 new trees in the ground! Expanding our urban canopy is critical to building climate resilience. But something that’s just as important is continuing to care for the canopy we have—especially the older, mature trees that make our neighborhoods shady,…
LA’s trees and shrubs are critical infrastructure, providing countless benefits to our communities and local ecosystems. Our native trees and shrubs—which are specially adapted to live in this region—play a particularly important role in our local environment, serving as hubs for biodiversity and beacons of climate resiliency that will cool our communities for generations to…
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Here at TreePeople, we work to transform degraded wilderness areas into healthy, sustainable, biodiverse ecosystems that provide countless benefits to our communities. When we take on these large-scale restoration projects, a big part of the work involves managing invasive species—aka weeding out harmful, non-native plants that damage the ecosystem by crowding out native species. In…
How has climate change impacted your life in Southern California? Have you experienced severe weather events like fire, extreme heat, or flooding? Altered your day-to-day routine because of the changing climate? Or noticed climate-related changes in your community or neighborhood? TreePeople wants to hear YOUR stories for a new research project! We’re looking for submissions…
Recent shifts in federal funding policy have caused widespread confusion and disruption for many nonprofits, including TreePeople. Our projects rely in part on federal grants. And while the government’s original “funding freeze” is no longer in effect, distributions from some public agencies remain paused, which has forced us to halt some of our crucial environmental…
The recent wildfires took a devastating toll on Southern California, impacting both our urban communities and the wilderness areas surrounding them. For nature lovers, it can be heartbreaking to see once-lush ecosystems in areas like Eaton Canyon and the Pacific Palisades reduced to ash. But while recovery will likely be a long road, it’s comforting…
Have you ever wondered how the plants we grow can help combat climate change? How factors like soil health can play a role in making our communities greener and cooler? And what we can do to design better landscapes for a more climate-resilient world? As we experience the very real impacts of climate change in…
The wildfires that tore through Los Angeles this month devastated so many of our local communities, as well as some of our region’s most beloved wilderness areas in the San Gabriel and Santa Monica Mountains. In the wake of this disaster, we’ve understandably received many questions about what restoration might look like in those ecosystems—and…