Photo Gallery: Descanso Gardens cuts ribbon on new Oak Woodland
From left to right, Cam Spitznagel, Claudia Forbes, Karen Howard and Kitty Schaller, tour the newly opened Oak Woodland after the ribbon cutting ceremony at Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. About 30,000 plants were planted in the newly created area. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)
Descanso Gardens cuts ribbon on the new oak woodland area, designed to provide a glimpse of what Los Angeles might have looked like before 16th-century European settlers and their livestock arrived and forever changed the Southern Californian landscape.
A large crowd attended the ribbon cutting ceremony for Oak Woodland at Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. About 30,000 plants were planted in the newly created area. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)
Kathryn Barger, chief deputy for Supervisor Michael Antonovich, left, presented an L.A. County Commendation to L.A. Co. Parks & Rec. director Russ Guiney, center, and Descanso Gardens executive director David Brown, during ribbon cutting ceremony for the Oak Woodland at Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. About 30,000 plants were planted in the newly created area. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)
L.A. Conservation Corps CEO Wendy Butts, left, helps cut the ribbon with Descanso Gardens executive director David Brown, second from left, Kathryn Barger, chief deputy for Supervisor Michael Antonovich, second from right, and L.A. Co. Parks & Rec. director Russ Guiney, right, at the newly opened Oak Woodland at Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. About 30,000 plants were planted in the newly created area. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)
A visitor tours the newly opened Oak Woodland after the ribbon cutting ceremony at Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. About 30,000 plants were planted in the newly created area. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)
A non-native Mandarin duck could be seen at the newly opened Oak Woodland side of the large lake after the ribbon cutting ceremony at Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. About 30,000 plants were planted in the newly created area. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)
A visitor tours the newly opened Oak Woodland after the ribbon cutting ceremony at Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. About 30,000 plants were planted in the newly created area. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)
Nel Graham of Pasadena, left, and Susan Redpath, of L.A., right, tour the newly opened Oak Woodland after the ribbon cutting ceremony at Descanso Gardens in La Ca-ada Flintridge on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. About 30,000 plants were planted in the newly created area. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)
