In southern California’s Coachella Valley, pale sand dunes sprawl under the desert sun, shifting and re-forming in the wind.

The South Coast bioregion contains the eastwest-running Transverse Range and the northsouth-oriented Peninsular Range. Except for the alpine zone, both ranges have a full complement of montane zones.

The Central Valley bioregion is a wide, flat, low-elevation trough of sediments bounded by the Coast Ranges to the west and Sierra Nevada to the east. The northern part is drained by the Sacramento ...

Leo Carrillo isn’t just another pretty viewpoint in California’s impressive collection of state parks. It’s the kind of place ...

Leo Carrillo State Park in Malibu is that escape hatch from urban madness. California has this uncanny knack for hiding ...

More than 600,000 acres of the Los Padres National Forest in California could re-open to industrial logging and road-building if the Trump administration achieves its goal of rescinding the Roadless ...

Contractors could be interested in building roads through chaparral ecosystems for recreation or to access remote, forested areas for timber harvesting.

But wildfire experts say cutting down Southern California's chaparral won't make the region safer from wildfires.

But wildfire experts say cutting down Southern California's chaparral won't make the region safer from wildfires. In fact, because of the local ecology, they say clearing vast swaths of native brush ...