Habitat
The park has diverse plant habitats of coastal sage scrub, chapparal, and California oak woodland. The various native plants and wildflowers are listed in the Flora of the Santa Monica Mountains and Flora of Malibu Creek State Park. The plants in the park's Malibu Lagoon section is listed in the Flora of Malibu Lagoon.
The area is habitat for fauna such as: mountain lions, bobcats, mule deer, golden eagles, and southern steelhead. In order to promote steelhead runs, the obsolete 1920s Rindge Dam is slated to be removed from lower Malibu Creek.
Read more about this topic: Malibu Creek State Park
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“Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)