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Climate Crisis 247 on MSN4d
Los Angeles To Remove Iconic Palm Trees To Reduce Wildfire Risk
Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports that the Los Angeles Fire Department has officially ...
Climate Crisis 247 on MSN3d
L.A. Tears Down Palm Trees After Fire
T he LA wildfires were so severe because high winds drove fire and embers from tree to tree and bush to bush. Among those ...
We call them palm trees but they really are something else
Palm Sunday is April 13 and palms have long been a symbol of sunny Southern California. There are many different types of ...
Los Angeles Times5d
Letters to the Editor: They aren’t native but nothing says L.A. quite like palm trees
To the editor: In her Sunday article about Los Angeles and its iconic palm trees (“Palm trees are about as L.A. as it gets. But is it time to bid them a frond farewell?”), Patt Morrison wrote ...
The New York Times1mon
Many California Trees Survived the Wildfires. Here’s Why.
Three national parks there are named for trees, as well as several cities, including Oakland and Palm Springs. And what more immediately evokes Los Angeles, the state’s most populous city ...
East Bay Times7d
We call them palm trees but they really are something else
In 1931 the Los Angeles forestry division planted more than 25,000 palm trees around the city. The most common was the Washingtonia robusta, or Mexican fan palm. Many of the original palms planted ...