Common Plants of Eaton Canyon
and the San Gabriel Foothills

Field Guide on CD

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• Flowers on Your Laptop, by Ginny Heringer, Southern Sierran (June, 2004).

  Until recently, local wildflower enthusiasts have been able to buy plant identification books for the Santa Monica Mountains, the Sierras, and for the deserts, but there has been no guide for the mountains that many of us hike the most often, the San Gabriels. Now there is an option–Common Plants of Eaton Canyon and the San Gabriel Foothills, a field guide on CD by Gabi and Cliff McLean. A CD field guide is a new approach...      (more...)

• Common Plants of Eaton Canyon and the San Gabriel Foothills, by Bob Cates, Naturalist Notes (May-June 2004).

  Congratulations to our own Gabi and Cliff McLean for producing this wonderful CD field guide to the flora of the foothills. With more than 700 images of 124 plants, in many instances covereing their appearances at different times of the year, the amateur botanist will find this guide to be of great assistance. Each plant also has...      (more...)

• Shrub Seeking? CD Delivers, by Samantha Bonar, Los Angeles Times (March 2, 2004).

  Naturalists Gabi and Cliff McLean, docents at the Los Angeles County Eaton Canyon Natural Area Park and Nature Center, have created a handy CD field guide to the flora in our local mountains. It contains more than 700 photos of 124 plants, each shown at different times of the year (when they can look wildly different), along with...      (more...)

• Common Plants of Eaton Canyon and the San Gabriel Foothills: A Field Guide on CD” - A Production of “Nature at Hand”, by Karen Mateer, Paw Prints (January, 2004).

  I am one of the many loyal docent/naturalists at Eaton Canyon. I lead nature walks and talk about the plants and animals in the Canyon. I have a confession to make. Unlike many of my fellow docents, I am botanically challenged. Oh sure, I can tell the major plants typical of the Canyon area. However, there is that moment...      (more...)

• Planting Knowledge, by Shelly Branco, San Gabriel Valley Tribune and Pasadena Star News (December 6, 2003).

  The end of the dry season is not a good time of year for the native flora crowding the front and back yard of Cliff and Gabi McLean’s Covina home. It is now dry and bloom-free. The sage, however, still emits a pungent odor when Cliff McLean crushes a leaf between his fingers one warm, sunny morning. With a yard that defies...      (more...)

• Nature at Hand press release (November 7, 2003).

  Covina, CA – November 7, 2003 – Nature at Hand, a San Gabriel Valley producer of nature-related educational materials, today announced a new resource for environmental education in the Southern California area. Their new product, Common Plants of Eaton Canyon and the San Gabriel Foothills: Field Guide on CD, will be released on November 15, 2003. This unique learning tool...      (more...)