Site Visit

For five days in March 2022, students travelled with wildlife experts, studio sponsors, and the 2021-2022 Loeb Fellows including John Peterson (Curator) and Anna Lyman (Program Director) across the Los Angeles Basin. We visited critical biodiversity hotspots, cultural sites, and places where infrastructure and urbanization continue to have the greatest impact on wildlife habitat and connectivity. Students also visited potential sites for their project proposals, recording observations and conditions as a baseline for situating their work. Excerpts from the trip follow.

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Above (top): Urban ecologist Kat Superfisky guides a tour of the Los Angeles River along the Glendale Narrows. Following page (top): Ms. Rosie Lee Hooks leads a gallery tour at the Watts Arts Center.

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Above (top): Members of the National Wildlife Federation’s California Center lead a tour of the future site of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing.

Above (bottom): Lisa Fimiani guides a tour of the Ballona Wetlands, and students stop to see the coast in Malibu. Following page (top): Students tour Huntington Gardens.

Following page (bottom): Seth Baker guides students through the Huntington Gardens and Mimi Zeiger leads a time for reflection in a pavilion in the Chinese Garden.

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