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Quercus agrifolia, the California live oak, [3] or coast live oak, is an evergreen [4] live oak native to the California Floristic Province.Live oaks are so-called because they keep living leaves on the tree all year, adding young leaves and shedding dead leaves simultaneously rather than dropping dead leaves en masse in the autumn like a true deciduous tree. [5]
The majestic California live oaks were such an impressive presence in the pre-urban Encino that the community was named after the Spanish word for "oak". The Encino oak was the most magnificent of the community's oaks, so large that Louise Avenue was split to accommodate its enormous 150-foot (46 m) canopy, 8-foot (2.4 m) diameter, and 24-foot ...
The goldspotted oak borer is just 14 miles from the Santa Monica Mountains' 600,000 oak trees and threatens to devastate forests throughout California, harming wildlife and increasing fire risks.
A brush fire has spread to nearly 3,000 acres in Los Angeles. The flames are being fueled by a severe wind storm across Southern California. Watch live: Pacific Palisades fire burns nearly 3,000 ...
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The church had its final move to a building it purchased at 2201 South Union Avenue in Los Angeles in early 1971. The building was consecrated on March 7, 1971. MCC worshiped there until January 27, 1973, when the building was destroyed by what the Fire Department called a fire "of suspicious origin". [23]
A small cross made of stained glass from one of the destroyed windows of the Los Angeles church in an arson fire in 1973. [15] The bulk of MCC's historical records are preserved at the Center for LGBTQ & Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS) in Berkeley, California, and the ONE Institute in Los Angeles. [14]
California's oldest tree, a Palmer's oak thought to be 13,000 to 18,000 years old, may be threatened by a proposed development, environmentalists say.