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These Earth Minutes celebrate California and the Los Angeles area:

California's Channel Islands - Santa Cruz Island

Hidden Gardens of Los Angeles
#1 - Visit Orcutt Ranch Park
#2 - Visit Malibu Legacy Park
#3 - Visit Pierce College Botanical Garden
#4 - Visit Conejo Valley Botanical Garden 
#5 - Visit a Kelp Forest at CA Science Center  

Hiking
Hiking Los Virgenes Open Space, CA 
Look at the Sunset, Winter Solstice 2014, Los Virgenes Open Space, CA
Walk to The Getty Center 
Hike Limekiln Canyon Park, CA (Pacific tree frog, western fence lizard)  
Malibu Creek - Feel the Cool in Malibu Creek State Park, CA
Malibu Creek State Park, CA - Wild Flowers
Walk Mulholland Hwy, Santa Monica Mts. (CA towhee, wildflowers)
Arroyo Seco - Angeles National Forest
Stroll Rocky Oaks Park
Walk Among The Oaks on The Autumnal Equinox (coast live oak and valley oaks at Orcutt Ranch Park)  

Los Angeles River
Discover the Headwaters of the Los Angeles River (least sandpipers, American crows) 
Walking the L.A. River - West San Fernando Valley (killdeer, mallards, American crows)
Discover L.A. River at Sepulveda Basin (red-tailed hawk, Canada geese, American wigeon)
Sepulveda Basin - An Earth Minute in One Spot (American coot, double-crested cormorant, song sparrow) 
Walking the L.A. River - Glendale Narrows (black-necked stilt, American wigeon)
L.A. River Thru Atwater Village (black-necked stilt, Canada geese, coyote)  


Gold Bluffs Beach, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park
Coastal
Walk the Beach in Malibu, CA
Visit Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands National Park, CA
Summer Visit to Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands National Park, CA (island fox, common long-beaked dolphins)

See the "Island of the Blue Dolphins" - San Nicolas Island, CA
Sounds of San Francisco - Hyde Street Pier
Discover Fern Canyon, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, CA
Gold Bluffs Beach, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, CA
Come Whale Watching Off the Coast of CA (gray whale)
Birds and Marine Mammals of CA Channel Islands (western gull, brown booby, long and short-beaked common dolphins, blue and fin whales) 
See Common Dolphins & Brown Pelicans Fishing
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden: How Do Trees Dream? and How Tall is a Redwood Tree?  

Valley Carpenter bee
Wildlife Close-ups
Bewick's Wrens Build a Nest  
Watching Valley Carpenter Bees
Take a Closer Look at the Gray Bird Grasshopper 
Watching Lizards in Southern California (western fence lizard & southern alligator lizard)
Rescuing an Alligator (juvenile southern alligator lizard) 
Alligator Lizard Hunting (southern alligator lizard)
Watching a Snowy Egret
Close-up with a Red Jumping Spider
Meet a Channel Island Fox 
Saved by the Endangered Species Act - Santa Cruz Island fox 
Meet a Roosevelt Elk (Cervus elaphus roosevelti)
Honey Bees in a Lemon Tree
Native CA Plantscape (honey bees)
This Morning in a Habitat Yard (CA towhee, band-tailed pigeons, ruby-crowned kinglet, Bewick's wren, CA desert tortoise)
North American raccoon
  
Backyard Breakfast Buddies - Reptile Style (CA desert tortoise and western fence lizard)
Ring-necked Snake in the Garden 
Desert Tortoise Hibernation
Band-tailed Pigeons Take over FeederWatch 
Winter Birding at Descanso Gardens, CA (hooded merganser, mallard, American coot, northern shoveler, great egret)
Black-bellied Slender Salamander 
California Towhee Guarding a Chick
Anise Swallowtail Butterfly
Plunge into a California Tide Pool 
Ravens Complain on a Power Pole 
Private Lives of Cooper's Hawk & Raven
Autumn in L.A. (desert tortoise)
Do Raccoons Come Out During the Day? 
 

CA coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)
Plant Close-ups
An Earth Minute of Orchids
Saucer Magnolia Marks Spring's Arrival
This Morning in a Habitat Yard (California natives, coastal live oak, blue-eyed grass, holly-leafed cherry, & Henry Fonda rose) 
Discovering Epiphyllums - Blooming Tropical Cactus 
Make a Mini Garden
Yucca Blossoms on Angeles Crest Hwy  
Leaves on CA Native Plants Fight Drought
How Tall is a Redwood Tree? 
Under Young Oaks (coastal live oak, manroot)
Visiting an Old Friend in Red Bluff (ancient oak, acorn woodpecker, mourning dove, hawk)
Walk Among The Oaks on The Autumnal Equinox (coast live oak and valley oaks at Orcutt Ranch Park) 
California Liveforevers - Dudleya
Signs of Spring (California desert tortoise, mourning cloak butterfly, honey bees, hollyleaf cherry) 
Native CA Plantscape (bladderpod) 
Walk Among the Oaks on Autumnal Equinox


CA Natives & Wildfire
After the Fire, Calabasas CA 2016 (coast live oak) 
Oaks After Fire, Calabasas Part 2
Up a Tree - Ants & an Ash Tree, After Fire, Part 3  

Winter Walk at Big Bear Lake, CA
Other California Adventures 
Listen to the River! Russian River Adventure Canoe Trip, Healdsburg CA
Taboose Creek, California - What is that sound?
Sequoia National Park - More Than Big Trees 
Visit Southern California Flower Show 
Visit Homes High Above Palm Springs, CA
Santana Winds Come to Los Angeles 
Winter Walk at Lake Tahoe, CA
Winter Walk at Big Bear Lake, CA 
New Year's Torch Parade, Snow Summit, Big Bear, CA
Bird on a Frozen Big Bear Lake, CA (harrier hawk, American coot, mallard, ruddy duck, great blue heron)
La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles CA
Walk With Us - WomensMarch L.A. 1/21/2017