
The Los Angeles Landscape History Project is focused on the Los Angeles River Watershed, Ballona Creek Watershed, and associated coastal watershed in between, with a special focus on ecological and environmental history.
We are building a collaborative archive of reports, data, and studies to better understand the region.
Historical Ecology of the Los Angeles River Watershed and Environs
Infrastructure for a Comprehensive Analysis (2020)
Funded by: John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation

Historical Ecology of the Los Angeles River Riparian Zone in the Elysian Valley
Chapter 2 in Water Supply and Habitat Resiliency for a Future Los Angeles River: Site-Specific Natural Enhancement Opportunities Informed by River Flow and Watershed-Wide Action: Los Feliz to Taylor Yard (2016)
Funder: The Nature Conservancy

Historical Ecology of the Ballona Creek Watershed (2011)
Funder: Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission
Historical Ecology and Landscape Change of the San Gabriel River and Floodplain (2007)
Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Technical Report #499

Los Angeles Coastal Prairie (1997)
Mattoni, R., and T. R. Longcore. 1997. The Los Angeles coastal prairie, a vanished community. Crossosoma 23(2):71–102.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
Michael Faraday
