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Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health – Exotic Grasses

Cal Fire hub of information on wildfires – Community Wildfire Preparedness

Climate Tool Box tools for visualizing past and projected climate and hydrology

 Greece tour with Pacific Horticulture April 2026

California Forestry and CalFire  Guidelines for Creating Defensible Space

Planning a native plant garden – Calscape

Ten Poems for Spring

Comparisons of Leaf burn times

Firescape design – Sustainable Defensible Space

Los Angeles Fire Resources

U.S. Forest Service – Science of Fall Color

Pacific Horticulture – Design Futurist Award

U.C. Davis – Climate-Ready Gardening Toolkit

American Society of Landscape Architects – Biodiversity Action Interview

Science Direct – Greenspace is Good for You

New York Botanical Garden – Gardening in a Changing Climate

Selectree – Urban Forest Ecosystem Institute

Metropolitan Water District – How to Make a Rain Garden

Pacific Horticulture Selecting Mulch and Helping Trees

Time Magazine What Cities Can Do to Beat Heat

Green America Climate Victory Gardens on You Tube

From Audubon: More Than Half of U.S. Birds are in Decline

Virens Studio – Why Planting More Street Trees Isn’t the Answer to Climate Change

Pacific Horticulture – Expand Your Palette: Waterwise Plants for your Landscape

Department of Water Resources – DWR Reference to current California reservoir capacity

Doug Tallamy – Homegrown National Park – gardens for biodiversity