Old Santa Monica Forestry Station

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Old Santa Monica Forestry Station
Eucalyptus occidentalis from "Eucalypts cultivated in the United States" (1902) (14596637437).jpg
1902 Eucalyptus Tree in the Old Santa Monica Forestry Station
Location Rustic Canyon, Los Angeles
Coordinates 34°02′13″N118°30′54″W / 34.0370416666667°N 118.515008333333°W / 34.0370416666667; -118.515008333333
Built1887
DesignatedMarch 20, 1970
Reference no.840
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Location of Old Santa Monica Forestry Station in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
Rustic Canyon Recreation Center, formerly the Uplifters Clubhouse Uplifters Clubhouse.jpg
Rustic Canyon Recreation Center, formerly the Uplifters Clubhouse

The Old Santa Monica Forestry Station is the nation's first experimental forestry station, built in 1887. The Old Santa Monica Forestry Station was designated a California Historic Landmark (No.840) on March 20, 1970. [1] Old Santa Monica Forestry Station is located at Rustic Canyon in Los Angeles in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California in Los Angeles County. The site is south of what is now called Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. In 1971 the state placed a marker near the entrance of the Rustic Canyon Recreation Center at the NW corner of Latimer and Hilltree Roads, at 601 Latimer Road, Los Angeles, CA 90402. This location is in what is now called Pacific Palisades. The hills and canyons around the Santa Monica Canyon were a land boom in the late 1880s.

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Abbot Kinney (1850-1920), from New Jersey, was a land developer and a conservationist. Kinney is best known for his "Venice of America" development in Los Angeles. Kinney was appointed to a three-year position as chairman of the California Board of Forestry. Kinney established the nation's first forestry station in Rustic Canyon on 6 acres (24,000 m2) of land donated by Santa Monica co-founder John P. Jones (also a U.S. Senator from Nevada), and Arcadia Bandini de Stearns Baker. One of the station's projects was a study of the newly introduced eucalyptus trees. [2] Located one mile inland from Pacific Ocean's Santa Monica Bay, Rustic Canyon was a good place for the new experimental forestry station. The station tested exotic trees to see if they were good for planting in California. The station started plantations, management studies, and grew plants for scientific and conservation studies. In 1893 the station turned over operation to the University of California, which ran the station till 1923.

Abbot Kinney published two books from the work done at the Old Santa Monica Forestry Station: a 1895 book tilted Eucalyptus, B.R. Baumgardt & Co., ISBN   1-4086-6309-0, 334 pages, 2008) and in 1900 the book titled Forest and Water, The Post publishing Company. The eucalyptus groves in Rustic Canyon, the site of the Old Santa Monica Forestry Station, still stand today. A state plaque was dedicated on August 18, 1971, next to the eucalyptus groves. [3]

Marker

Marker on the site reads: [4] [5]

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