One indicator of a healthy garden is a diversity of invertebrate life, from soil microbes to insects. With its botanical bounty and limited use of chemical controls in landscape maintenance, The Huntington’s grounds are an urban oasis for wildlife, including an incredible array of spineless wonders.
Clemson University wildlife and ecology professor, J. Drew Lanham was named a MacArthur Fellow, the first in the university's history. Lanham recently gave a talk at The Huntington on birding, conservation, and the roles diversity and race play in celebrating our natural world.
If a blueprint can help reveal the biography of a building then “a biography of modern Los Angeles” might be a good way to describe the John and Donald Parkinson collection recently acquired by The Huntington. The little-known cache contains more than 20,000 items, including drawings, blueprints, office records, photographs, and ephemera.
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