Griffith Park Fire and Restoration
Your help is needed!
TreePeople is seeking to identify and train volunteers to replant areas of Griffith Park and other recent burn areas. We are now working with Griffith Park officials to determine the planting strategy and timeframe. If you would like to be placed on a Griffith Park alert list, please contact volunteer@treepeople.org.
TreePeople has recently established a Wildfire Re-leaf fund to accept donations for the October 2007 wildfires. Donations will go towards fire restoration in mountain areas as well as park woodlands and wilderness areas. These efforts include but are not limited to tree planting, tree care, invasive species removal, native plant restoration and volunteer training .
Donations to the Wildfire Re-leaf fund will also support the ongoing fire restoration work TreePeople continues to do in other parts of Los Angeles County. Funds donated in the immediate future will go towards restoration work in Griffith Park as well our tree planting and tree care efforts in the Angeles National Forest.
Griffith Park Fire and Restoration Videos Now Available
Watch a new Griffith Park restoration video featuring Principal Forester Laura Bauernfeind, Los Angeles Department of Recreation & Parks. See images of park areas not accessible to the public as well as inspiring new growth in the vulnerable, fire-baked soil. Watch the video here.
To watch KCET's May 2007 coverage of the Griffith Park fire including interviews with Councilmember Tom LaBonge and TreePeople's Laurie Kaufman click here.
TreePeople has a 30-year history of leading fire restoration projects. Our staff is currently working with the Los Angeles Department of Recreation & Parks to determine the most appropriate Griffith Park planting projects in the areas of greatest need. We are working with park officials to determine the planting strategy and timeframe.
The next step is to assess the damage and then prescribe the appropriate restoration strategies that are consistent with fire ecology in a high-density urban area. Slope stabilization until the native vegetation returns will be a focus.
TreePeople advocates planting the right tree in the right place. Much of the vegetation that burned was chaparral, and we recommend restoring the park with native plants whenever possible.
Your help is needed!
TreePeople is seeking to identify and train volunteers to replant areas of Griffith Park and other recent burn areas. We are now working with Griffith Park officials to determine the planting strategy and timeframe. If you would like to be placed on a Griffith Park alert list, please contact volunteer@treepeople.org.
If you would like to support TreePeople's restoration efforts in Griffith Park and other burn areas please consider donating to our special Wildfire Re-leaf fund . For additional information please contact Kelley Skumautz at kskumautz@treepeople.org.
You may also donate directly to Griffith Park and the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks:
Griffith Park Restoration Fund
Dept. of Recreation and Parks
3900 Chevy Chase Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90039.
Attn: Griffith Region Superintendent
Suggested reading: "Fire, Chaparral, and Survival in Southern California," Halsey, Richard W. 2005. Sunbelt Publications, San Diego.
TreePeople would like to thank the firefighters for their courageous and outstanding efforts to combat the firestorms in Southern California.
TreePeople is seeking to identify and train volunteers to replant areas of Griffith Park and other recent burn areas. We are now working with Griffith Park officials to determine the planting strategy and timeframe. If you would like to be placed on a Griffith Park alert list, please contact volunteer@treepeople.org.
TreePeople has recently established a Wildfire Re-leaf fund to accept donations for the October 2007 wildfires. Donations will go towards fire restoration in mountain areas as well as park woodlands and wilderness areas. These efforts include but are not limited to tree planting, tree care, invasive species removal, native plant restoration and volunteer training .
Donations to the Wildfire Re-leaf fund will also support the ongoing fire restoration work TreePeople continues to do in other parts of Los Angeles County. Funds donated in the immediate future will go towards restoration work in Griffith Park as well our tree planting and tree care efforts in the Angeles National Forest.
Griffith Park Fire and Restoration Videos Now Available
Watch a new Griffith Park restoration video featuring Principal Forester Laura Bauernfeind, Los Angeles Department of Recreation & Parks. See images of park areas not accessible to the public as well as inspiring new growth in the vulnerable, fire-baked soil. Watch the video here.
To watch KCET's May 2007 coverage of the Griffith Park fire including interviews with Councilmember Tom LaBonge and TreePeople's Laurie Kaufman click here.
TreePeople has a 30-year history of leading fire restoration projects. Our staff is currently working with the Los Angeles Department of Recreation & Parks to determine the most appropriate Griffith Park planting projects in the areas of greatest need. We are working with park officials to determine the planting strategy and timeframe.
The next step is to assess the damage and then prescribe the appropriate restoration strategies that are consistent with fire ecology in a high-density urban area. Slope stabilization until the native vegetation returns will be a focus.
TreePeople advocates planting the right tree in the right place. Much of the vegetation that burned was chaparral, and we recommend restoring the park with native plants whenever possible.
Your help is needed!
TreePeople is seeking to identify and train volunteers to replant areas of Griffith Park and other recent burn areas. We are now working with Griffith Park officials to determine the planting strategy and timeframe. If you would like to be placed on a Griffith Park alert list, please contact volunteer@treepeople.org.
If you would like to support TreePeople's restoration efforts in Griffith Park and other burn areas please consider donating to our special Wildfire Re-leaf fund . For additional information please contact Kelley Skumautz at kskumautz@treepeople.org.
You may also donate directly to Griffith Park and the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks:
Griffith Park Restoration Fund
Dept. of Recreation and Parks
3900 Chevy Chase Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90039.
Attn: Griffith Region Superintendent
Suggested reading: "Fire, Chaparral, and Survival in Southern California," Halsey, Richard W. 2005. Sunbelt Publications, San Diego.
TreePeople would like to thank the firefighters for their courageous and outstanding efforts to combat the firestorms in Southern California.