Due to public health circumstances, we have postponed the upcoming events on the CGHLS spring calendar. We look forward to rescheduling them and resuming further public programming (we had more in store for you!) as soon as it's advisable.
In the meantime, we invite members to spend some time with the many garden and landscape history resources that we offer here on our website:
Plant Materials
Publications and Books
Links
Preservation
Gardens and Landscapes
Eden Archives
To enjoy full access to the most recent issues of our journal, Eden, please become a member of CGLHS.
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This year marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of CGLHS! We are now planning our 2020 conference focusing on the Los Angeles River. Registration will be available in early summer.
Saturday morning's speakers will present at the Los Angeles River Center. Other activities will include talks, walking tours, kayak excursions and exploration of pocket parks. The tours are scheduled to feature Atwater, Frogtown, and the Headwaters Corner at Calabasas.
Speakers and tour leaders will include:
Joe Edmiston, Executive Director of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy
Joe Linton of "Creek Freaks" and "Streetsblog LA;" author of the guidebook, Down by the Los Angeles River
Dennis Washburn, advocate for the Santa Monica Mountains and Las Virgenes Forest and founding mayor of Calabasas
More will be added in the coming months. Please plan to join us!
PHOTO: Los Angeles, looking north from Elysian Park showing Los Angeles River and Mt. Washington, approximately 1900, photCL Pierce 00853, C.C. Pierce Collection of Photographs, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
