Natural Resources

Santa Monica Mountains visitors will see a wide variety of plants in the mountains, including many trees: valley oaks, coast live oaks, California black walnuts, and chaparral flowering ash. Cottonwoods, sycamore and mule fat line the stream channel. Spring is an excellent time to see wildflowers: purple sage, California everlasting, virgin's bower, wild rose, chocolate lily (on Towsley View loop trail), lupine, blue larkspur, yellow mariposa lily, and more! Watch for poison oak--red in fall, lush green growth in the spring and summer--all parts, roots and dormant branches included, are toxic.

Natural Resources

Animals Mule deer California ground squirrel Bobcat Mountain lion Gray fox Cottontail rabbit Striped skunk Raccoon Ringtail cat Badger Rodents Gopher Opossum Coyote California black bear

Birds Redtail hawk Red shouldered hawk Black-Shouldered Kite Raven Acorn woodpecker Barn owl Burrowing owl Great horned owl California quail Turkey vulture Golden Eagle Hummingbirds Flickers Thrashers Wrens Scrub jay Kestrel

Reptiles Common kingsnake Gopher snake Racer Alligator lizard Pacific rattlesnake Garter snake Skink Bluebelly lizard Western Coachwhip snake

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