Sign up for a talk about the early days of the National Park Service. Year-end must readA barrel of DDT on the ocean floor off Catalina Island. Rosanna Xia wrote about the wildlife-killing chemical lingering off the coast of Catalina Island decades after it was banned. A dead 18-foot oarfish washed up at Toyon Bay on Catalina Island in 2013. (Catalina Island Marine Institute)AdvertisementLast week, I wrote about toyon, California’s own Christmas berry, a shrub blooming along many low-elevation trails right now.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 31, 2020 18:56 UTC