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Our local Indians, the Tongva people, practiced a complex system of land management before the Europeans arrived. Through controlled burns to encourage growth, cultivation of seeds, and careful culling of local game, the Tongva created an Eden in the LA area. Early explorers described the landscape as looking like a "well-tended garden".

Kat High, Director of the Haramokngna American Indian Cultural Center, will describe those management techniques, and how those practices developed in Southern California over thousand of years can be used in modern times to restore our lands to their former beauty.

Regular meetings are held the third Monday of each month at 7:00 PM at the the Center for Spiritual Living, formerly known as the La Crescenta Church of Religious Science located at the intersection of Dunsmore and Santa Carlotta.