Audubon Center at Debs Park

Since 1998, Audubon has been working with the City of Los Angeles and the communities of Northeast and East Los Angeles to develop the the Audubon Center at Debs Park.

The result: a cutting-edge environmental education center and ecological monitoring program within the nearly 300-acre city park, located on the border of Highland Park and Montecito Heights between Dodger Stadium and South Pasadena.

Over half the park is covered in walnut-oak woodland, grassland, and coastal sage scrub, a remnant of the native habitats that once rimmed the Los Angeles Basin.

Read more about this wonderful center in Audubon Magazine's March 2004 issue.... High Hopes

Children enjoying the nature trail at Debs Park
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For general information on The Audubon Center at Debs Park, contact (323) 221-2255.

Over 25,000 kids, mostly Latino, live within 2 miles of the Audubon Center at Debs Park, with working parents who are simply too busy for trips to the nearby mountains or the beach. Aside from the occasional field trip in grade school, these kids are being left out of environmental education opportunities that children elsewhere take for granted. In fact, the grandparents and great-grandparents in the community, often from rural backgrounds, possess a far broader knowledge of the natural world than do the younger generations. With family-oriented educational programming, the Audubon Center at Debs Park will address these disparities and will serve as a model for urban nature centers across the country.

For specific natural history information, including information on birding Debs Park, contact Patty Sun. She may be reached at (323) 221-2255.