A community biodiversity project in El Monte

El Monte BLOOMS

Building biodiversity and life outdoors through ongoing mutual stewardship.

A community-led project in El Monte to learn about, protect, and grow the variety of life around us. Open to neighbors of all ages. Educational events, walking tours, and workshops at Peck Road Water Conservation Park.

What is biodiversity?

What do you see when you go outside?

Biodiversity is the variety of plants, animals, insects, and other living things sharing a place. In the San Gabriel Valley, biodiversity is everywhere if you slow down and look.

  • Wildlife like the monarch butterfly pass through on their migration.
  • Plants and flowers like California poppies attract bees when they bloom.
  • Whole ecosystems, like the San Gabriel Mountains, are home to red-tailed hawks, California Sycamore, Coastal Prickly Pear, and California Buckwheat.

Native to El Monte

A few neighbors at Peck Road Park

From the trees that shade the trails to the birds that pass through, biodiversity at Peck Road Water Conservation Park looks like this.

Coast Live Oak

Tree

California Buckwheat

Native shrub

Western Fence Lizard

Reptile

American White Pelican

Migratory bird

Mule Fat

Native shrub

White Sage

Native shrub

Canary Red Admiral

Migratory butterfly

Dragonfly

Pollinator

For neighbors

What does El Monte mean to you?

This project belongs to the community. Three questions we'll be bringing to events, workshops, and conversations across El Monte. We'd love to hear your answers.

1

Where in El Monte do you go to feel grounded?

2

What's a tree, plant, or animal you remember from growing up?

3

If you could change one outdoor space in El Monte, which would it be?

What's ahead

Project timeline

Now

Phase 1: Listening

Community outreach begins. Listening, learning, and inviting neighbors in.

Next

Phase 2: Walking and learning

Free, family-friendly walking tours at Peck Road Park and around El Monte.

Later

Phase 3: Community proposals

Community concepts and proposals, shaped by neighbors, ready to move forward.

Our partners

Working together for biodiversity in El Monte

Two organizations bringing different strengths to the same goal.

ActiveSGV

ActiveSGV is a local nonprofit working to create a more livable, sustainable, and equitable San Gabriel Valley. Based in El Monte since 2010, they shape projects around what residents say they need — listening to neighbors at workshops, walking tours, and bike rides across the SGV.

Visit ActiveSGV.org

Natural History Museum of LA County

The Natural History Museum is one of L.A.'s oldest cultural institutions, anchoring a cultural and educational hub in Exposition Park. They protect and share more than 35 million specimens — the largest natural and cultural history collection in the western United States — and explore the relationship between nature and people in L.A. and beyond.

Visit nhm.org

Have an idea? Want to help?

El Monte BLOOMS belongs to neighbors. Send us a note or come to a walking tour or bike ride. Your voice shapes what comes next.

Email the team