How a Los Angeles Landscape Architecture Firm Is Reclaiming a Hillside for Native Plants

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.