A feeling of peace and rugged beauty is inherent to the southern California ... region directly south of the park does not share this safeguard, and those mountain ranges are home to two native ...

To earn the label, regions had to support at least 1,500 endemic plant species and to have lost 70 percent of their primary habitat. The bad news: The California Floristic Province made the list ...

Efforts to protect an endangered plant are being pointed to as worsening the Palisades fire, but the org behind this protection says that is not the full story.