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Constructed Wilderness: A Tale of Two Parks
In the last few weeks I’ve visited two “wilderness” parks in the South Bay area near Los Angeles. Both are islands of nature surrounded by suburbs, but they have opposite goals. Madrona Marsh Preserve...
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Glass, Steel, Rails and Wildflowers: A Walk in Manhattan Beach
Lately whenever I take my car in for maintenance, I end up taking the car-free morning away from home as an excuse to walk down to the Manhattan Beach Pier. The last time was right after a Halloween...
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Back to the Marsh (what’s left of it)
At the end of August I returned to the Madrona Marsh Preserve. It’s a fragment of the seasonal wetlands that used to dot the western edge of the Los Angeles basin, just inland from the coastal hills....
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Seasonal Wetlands: Before and After the Summer
Finally put together a before-and-after shot! On the right: May in Madrona Marsh, after winter and spring rains filled up the low-lying areas of the preserve. On the left: Late August in the same...
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Seasons of Madrona Marsh
Last weekend I returned to the Madrona Marsh Preserve to see what our late summer/autumn heat wave had done to the place. The fields of sunflowers I saw in August have gone to seed and dried up, and...
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