FORT ORD >> After this rainy winter, Machine Gun Lake in the Fort Ord National Monument is brimming with water. But, come summer, the lake will look like a grassy field. Machine Gun Lake is the ...

A surfer slides past Lighthouse Point on a recent morning as purple ice plant flowers hang from the cliff. The ice plant ...

“It looks green, but to wildlife it may as well be concrete,” said George Durgerian, a park ranger at Ft. Funston. Ice plant carpets California’s coastal bluffs from Baja California to the ...

Almost seven decades since soldiers first bellied up to the bar at Fort Ord's famed Stilwell Hall ... In patches where nonnative ice plant has been removed, native plants shelter the rare ...

The Bureau of Land Management has a clear message for visitors to Fort Ord National Monument ... destroys endangered plants and wildlife habitat, and is costly to remedy.” ...

The Army and the Bureau of Land Management are urging visitors to the Fort Ord National Monument in central California to please ... destroys endangered plants and wildlife habitat, and is costly ...