Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy

We conserve and steward natural open space and provide free environmental education programs.

The San Gabriel Mountains are a vast natural landscape that is healthy and fully functioning. The San Rafael Hills, Verdugo Mountains and Griffith Park are islands of native habitat that need to be reconnected with the San Gabriels if they are to sustain healthy and diverse natural populations of wildlife and native plants. AFC is working to connect these islands with corridors that will invite wildlife to pass freely from one area to another and allow these special urban habitats to adapt to climate change. We are also preserving lands in our foothills with the highest intrinsic ecological value. These key habitat areas are being strategically protected through land acquisition, conservation easements, land use planning and implementation, and education.

Conservation

Conservation

Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy works with urgency to identify, preserve, and steward the most important natural lands and wildlife corridors in and around the San Gabriel and Crescenta Valleys for wildlife, birds and other native animals and plants.

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Wildlife

Wildlife

AFC launched its remote wildlife camera program in 2014 to document wildlife on AFC properties, research potential passageways for wildlife and to engage folks who are unable to visit natural open space. These stunning images help convey our mission.

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Education

Education

AFC feels a strong responsibility to nurture the next generation of land stewards in order to ensure the protection of natural open space in our communities in perpetuity. To do that we have established a strong Conservation through Education Program.

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Image of a mountain lion walking with city lights behind it. Text overlayed that reads Arroyos & Foothills presents Living in a Wildlife Corridor, an immersive exhibit fusing art and nature open at Descanso Gardens from June 3rd to October 1st.

Art meets nature meets individual action in this interactive exhibit.

Through the lens of talented wildlife photographers and camera trappers, via the paint brushes and canvases of local artists, and through the stories and wisdom of the Tongva people who have stewarded this land for millennia, you’ll see our wild surroundings from an entirely new perspective. This exhibit blends art, science, and the best of community conservation efforts.

This exhibit highlights Descanso Gardens’ place in the Hahamongna to Tujunga Wildlife Corridor, a series of passageways Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy (AFC) is working to establish for wildlife to travel between the San Gabriel Mountains and the isolated open space of the San Rafael Hills, Verdugo Mountains and Griffith Park.

We each play a part in supporting the health of our planet. We all must learn how to think global, but act local to make a positive impact on our changing climate. Conservation works best when we work together: you will walk away with real, immediate actions to make a difference in your backyards and neighborhood.

Land Acknowledgement

The Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy gratefully acknowledges the Indigenous Peoples who are the original stewards of the ancestral and unceded lands we work to conserve today. We commit to collaborate with and include Indigenous voices in our work so that we may all become better stewards and build meaningful connections to the land.