Elephant Hill Portrait
Research and Collections
Elephant Hill Community Nature Celebration and Habitat Survey
Join community members and scientists, Saturday, October 14, to celebrate and study nature on Elephant Hill, an open space in North East L.A. valuable to humans and wildlife.
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Children participating in a bioblitz
Welcome to the 2023 LA BioBlitz Challenge
Help discover the incredible biodiversity all over Los Angeles!
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Wildfire Smoke and Birds
A Q&A with Dr. Olivia Sanderfoot, Director of Project Phoenix
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Green returning to the Angeles National Forest in Southern California six months after the Station Fire.
Where There's Smoke
A look at what we know and don't know about how growing wildfires impact our natural world, and how we can learn to cope
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Naturalist Nature in L.A.
Nature Gardens Turn 10
A look back—and forward–at all the nature thriving in NHM’s Nature Gardens.
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A Museum Educator holding a tape measure around a tree's circumference
How Old Is Your Oak?
A How-to by NHMLAC
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Ponding!
A How-to by NHMLAC
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City Nature Challenge girl with binoculars
Global Community Science
How crowd-sourced science projects like the City Nature Challenge fuel research to protect our planet
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Snails, Camera, Action!
SnailBlitz slimes forward until March 31. For the first time, the public will vote on the winning images from April 1–7!
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Research and Collections
Big Bee Bonanza
Help digitize NHM's bee collections and keep bees buzzing with this crowd-sourced community science project
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