Rambling LA: Native gray
By Ilsa Setziol
Who hasn’t watched their backyard squirrels scurry along power lines, spiral up and down tree trunks, whip their tails and holler “chkk-chkk-chkk” at trespassing scrub jays?
Now that autumn trees are full of acorns, the antics are in overdrive.
Surprisingly, though, the squirrels leaping from bough to bough in urban Los Angeles aren’t native.…
Rambling LA: At sea and agog
Click on the whales to be taken to the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuaries page on blue whales. Photo: NOAA
By Ilsa Setziol
THE DINOSAURS are gone. So too the mammoths, saber-toothed cats and short-faced bears. Even California’s mascot, the grizzly, no longer roams the state. Megalopolis has replaced megafauna. Yet the largest animal ever still graces the California coast. This summer, I went looking for it.
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