Oro Vista Park/Big Tujunga Wash Plant tour. Sponsor: CNPS, LASMM Chapter.

The Shadow Hills Nature Journal Club meetup at 11:30am has been cancelled due to personal family issues.  

We still encourage your attendance to the tour  sponsored by California Native Plant Society (CNPS), Los Angeles Santa Monica Mountains (LASMM) Chapter.

More information on Shadow Hills NJC's Calendar entry.

May 18, 2024, 9:30am. Big Tujunga Wash Plant Tour

This outing led by Roger Klemm will tour the xeric portion of Big Tujunga Wash where groundwater is deeper than tree roots, located between wetter, wooded areas about 4 miles apart, upstream and downstream.  We will view dry wash vegetation in flood channels north of the Sunland-Tujunga community, managed since 2011 by the Mountains Recreation & Conservation Authority.  We hope to see vigorously blooming native shrubs after a wet winter.

Meet near picnic tables in Oro Vista Park, at the corner of Oro Vista Avenue and Grove Street.  From the I-210 freeway exit at Sunland Blvd., go 3/4 mile east to Oro Vista Ave., then 3/4 miles north to the park.  Bring water, hat, walking shoes and appropriate clothing.  

This event is listed on CNPS website for, "Los Angeles Santa Monica Mountain (LASMM)" Chapter: https://chapters.cnps.org/lasmm/events/

Contact Bill Neill. CNPS, LASMM, at bgneill@earthlink.net for more information about CNP's event.

Shadow Hills Nature Journal Club Meetup

Shadow Hills Nature Journal Club will meet after the native plant tour at the picnic tables at approx. 11:30-12:30pm However, please bring a light weight very portable stool in the event all the picnic tables are all claimed.  The group will start with some drawing warm up exercises... and return to the garden to  observe, record, draw, connect more deeply with nature.