Concerning Landscape
info@concerninglandscape.orgConcerning Landscape is an interdisciplinary arts and ecology organization dedicated to land care and community-rooted stewardship in the northeast San Fernando Valley. Through site-specific projects and public programs, we engage the ecological and cultural histories of the Angeles National Forest and the San Gabriel and Verdugo Mountain foothills. Centering Indigenous knowledge and practice, we work to deepen public understanding of regional biodiversity and fire-adapted ecologies, cultivating practices of care attuned to place.
Our Major Initiatives at this time include:
No Canyon Hills (NCH) NCH is a community coalition forged in solidarity with the plant and animal communities of the Verdugo Mountains in Los Angeles, ancestral land and unceded territory of the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians, and the Gabrieleno (Tongva) Band of Mission Indians. Catalyzed by a proposal to build a luxury gated development on 300+ acres of intact native habitat in the Verdugos, NCH deploys cooperative actions and interventionist strategies across social, political, educational, and legislative registers. NCH works as a multiform entity to conceive and realize urgent anti-colonial land conservation solutions.
View the coalition page: No Canyon Hills
Chaparral Commons
CC is a site-specific, hyperlocal educational garden-in-progress at the Transverse Range office in Tujunga, designed to model the native chaparral ecosystem of the Verdugo-San Gabriels and to serve as a place of reorientation. Rooted in experiential education and community participation, the garden will function as a living classroom. Chaparral Commons seeks to recenter fire-adapted stewardship informed by Indigenous knowledge systems at the scale of the residential+/community garden.
Transverse Range
Transverse Range is an interdisciplinary office for ecological inquiry and cultural work, rooted in the foothills of Tujunga. Situated within the dynamic ecotone of the Transverse Ranges, the office invites writers, researchers, designers and cultural practitioners to engage deeply with the local ecology, Indigenous histories, and evolving land-use narratives of the northeast San Fernando Valley and Crescenta Valley. Through seasonal residencies, public programs, and collaborative fieldwork, the program cultivates a growing network of interdisciplinary practitioners committed to expanding place-based knowledge and fostering reciprocal relationships with the land. By centering localized observation, critical inquiry, and creative response, the residency aims to generate new understandings of this fire-adapted, biodiverse region—its layered histories, present vulnerabilities, and future possibilities.
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