How a Los Angeles Landscape Architecture Firm Is Reclaiming a Hillside for Native Plants
Terremoto is spearheading an experimental grassroots project to transform a neglected patch of public land with native species.
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An act of radical ecology is taking place on a hillside in Elysian Park in Los Angeles. In an ongoing project called Test Plot, landscape architecture firm Terremoto is working with the community to rehabilitate patches of a landscape whose ecosystem is being choked by invasive species. The key is replacing them with native plants. "If you look outside the circle, almost everything you see is nonnative to the area," says David Godshall, cofounder of Terremoto.
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Gregory Han
Co-author of Poketo's Creative Spaces: People, Homes, and Studios to Inspire, Mushroom Hunting, Tree Hugging. Find me at @Wirecutter /// @dwellmagazine /// @wallpapermag
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