Ballot measure will raise nearly $95 million a year to build and maintain L.A. County parks, connecting millions to the outdoor world and bolstering habitat for birds.

Protecting the Coastal California Gnatcatcher from developers was one of our big victories this year. Here's the story in cartoon form.

Of the $94.5 million that the ballot measure will raise for parks, at least $24 million will go to habitat projects -- and maybe a lot more than that.

It's fall seeding time for coastal sage scrub at Audubon Starr Ranch Sanctuary.

While these birds may not be the living dead, they do eat the dead.

Fall is a great time to get outside and explore new birding hot spots in the West. But a long day spent birding can leave you parched, which is why this month, we are sharing our new Birds and Brews map with you.

Vintage photographs from 1906 document when the great birds flew over Los Angeles and Pasadena.