Leave the parking lot with the observatory building directly behind you, climbing a slope shaded by pine and oak trees and dotted with benches and picnic tables.
It begins at Chantry Flat in Big Santa Anita Canyon, one of the most bucolic in Angeles National Forest, then rises steeply across slopes shaded by oak and big-cone spruce on the way to the 5,710-foot 5,710-foot
The vista was as advertised — a vale through chalk hills, a parallax of sloping fields in various shades of green, extending for miles.
Walnut and pine trees provide canopies of shade above deeply sloping footpaths.
Jaysen Deacon stood in the middle of the sloping suburban front yard, partially shaded by a large maple tree whose branches were filled with five giggling playmates.
We find that the remaining forest fragments are non-randomly distributed in the landscape, with most fragments located at higher elevations, steeper slopes and shade aspects.
We analyzed the effects of local livelihoods, cooperative types, and selected biophysical variables (elevation, slope, percent shade, distance to the forest, coffee density, and coffee age) on tree biodiversity in shade coffee cooperatives of El Salvador.
Still, California remains headed down what Oldar calls "an insidious slope": Great shade trees are vanishing, leaving pygmy urban forests and gray-scapes.
OUTDOOR SPACE: The sloping, wooded lot is landscaped with ferns and other shade plants among stone pathways.
