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Diamond Bakery
A Mitzvah for L.A.
Doug Weinstein | Diamond Bakery
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Burro-Ing Into the Past
How introduced donkeys and the indigenous pumas that love (to hunt) them are helping to resurrect extinct food webs in Death Valley
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Pizza Addicts Only
Ali Haider Ali | 786 Degrees
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L.A. Bats Under the Overpass
Counting the bats roosting along the L.A. River
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Cake and Art Decorating
Cakes Made With Pride
Tom Rosa | Cake and Art
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Pollinator Meadow in the Nature Gardens Spring
Get Off Your Lawn
Quit cutting grass and start cutting down your water usage with inspiration from our Nature Gardens
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Birding with students at San Pascual Elementary School
Nature in L.A.
Let's Go Birding!
Join a student-guided avian adventure
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L.A.’s OG Hawowshi
Amir Edward | The Original Hawowshi
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Ailurarctos reconstruction Mauricio Anton
Research and Collections
Eating bamboo? It's all in the wrist.
An ancient fossil reveals the earliest panda on an exclusively bamboo diet and the evolutionary history of panda's false thumbs
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