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 Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges form an axis of high mountains east of the Central Valley and Klamath Mountains. The Southern Cascade Range bioregion is the southern end of an extensive chain of ...

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.

Endemic to California, Jones' Bushmallow is common in coastal chaparral and woodland from Monterey to Santa Barbara, but can be found as far south as Baja California.

A regional air quality alert has been issued for parts of Southern California as two fires continue to burn in Riverside County, prompting officials to warn thousands of residents to remain ...

A local activist and social media influencer is gaining attention for using his platform to alert Southern California communities of immigration raids and law enforcement activity.