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Presented by Travis Longcore. It is difficult, in the face of the near-total urbanization of the Los Angeles Basin, to imagine what diversity of habitats and vegetation thrived as part of the Indigenous landscape before Spanish contact. Using a diverse range of tools and through interdisciplinary collaboration, the Los Angeles Landscape History project has explored and mapped this landscape, providing insight into the pre-modern functioning of the landscape and the historical distribution of plants and vegetation types.

Biography: Travis Longcore is Adjunct Professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA. He has been working on the historical ecology of southern California off-and-on since he was a graduate student at UCLA in the 1990s and has contributed to and led research efforts that cover the Ventura River, Santa Clara River and Oxnard Plan, Topanga Lagoon, Ballona Creek, Los Angeles River Watershed, San Gabriel River, San Joaquin Hills, the lagoons of northern San Diego County, and the Tijuana River and Estuary.