We all learned science in school, slideshows, books, and if we were extra lucky, movies and bubbling experiments filled us with wonder....

Crab Nebula the Remains of an Exploded Star From our little perch we feel the last tips of sunbeams trailing across our faces and away...

Everywhere you go your home is with you. In fact it's right on your back, rather it is your back. Your third eye rests centrally on the...

As someone who makes their living by scrambling over rocks, slipping, and face planting in the creek on the search for animals, I can say...

Little bulging eyes resting upon a bumpy orange head raise droopily to meet your own. They slowly blink and the little yellow spot...

Let's talk handsome mammals. This closeup is of a stunning hulking mass of adult male elephant seal. This guy, this brute, this model, is...

Cracking, while dust spirals off in the hot wind, the river beds are void of moisture. Grasses begin to grow in the middle of the creek,...

It’s hard to imagine that this thick stinky black mess clogging up the creek and boiling off the sidewalk, towers above all as the worlds...

Slithering through wet grass, his nictitating membrane closes over his eye to protect from the dew drop that’s landed on his scaly head....

The California alligator lizard in many ways is the dragon of the Santa Monica Mountains. This sly scaly beast rules over the small...

Presented below are fantastic drawings created by students of Lemay Street Elementary school, Van Nuys, California who went on a nature...

Crashing through the undergrowth and pulling broken sticks out of my hair I head up through a creek in the Matilija Wilderness in Ojai. I...

Something sounding like a helicopter approaches, yet the hum is laborious as the flying object is so large and heavy it has to put full...

With the long summer months approaching many students are loving their summer breaks! However, as the weeks go on they start spending...

When a young scholar like Sadie shows up, eyes filled with the desire to learn, we at the Havasi Wilderness foundation feel most proud....

Many people, even those living in Southern California, imagine this area to be mostly cityscape. Generally people are somewhat aware of...

Fwoosh! A puff of white water on the horizon catches your peripheral vision and forces you to snap your head around. You turn just in...

The Horned lizard is one of the most prehistoric looking and most fascinating creatures we have living in the Santa Monica Mountains and...

Although we were lucky this year to have a couple good rainstorms, the constant scorching of the land leaves California still in a...

Oftentimes when discussing nature we like to point out different animals that you can see by hiking through your local parks. Things you...