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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
Ranger Guided
 
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area offers a variety of "Parks as Classrooms" Programs. These programs specifically target the education curriculum designated for the state of California.

The Chumash: A Changing People, A Changing Land
Third and Fourth Graders


Parks as Laboratories:
Studies of Land, Water, and Air

For Middle Schools

EcoHelpers: Restoration Program
for Students
High School

National Park Labs:
Studies of Wildland Fire Ecology

High School

The need for plants used in restoration projects loomed large for many years, but volunteers made it happen.  

Did You Know?
A core group of dedicated National Park volunteers, often laboring in the hot sun, built a native plant nursery from the ground up in 2002. Native plants, from the common Ceanothus to the endangered Lyons pygmy daisy germinated in this volunteer-run nursery will help restore disturbed habitat.

Last Updated: June 20, 2008 at 20:54 EST