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The Los Angeles Times once wrote of the Encino oak, "When the famed Lang oak tree of Encino was but a sapling, the Mayan Empire was crumbling and Vikings were sacking English sea towns." [2] It was already 100 years old when Pope Urban II launched the first Crusade. And when the first Europeans passed through Encino in 1769 as part of the ...
The Los Angeles Arboretum Foundation is a non-profit organization governed by a board of trustees with a CEO. The current CEO and President of the board of trustees are: CEO: Michael Desplaines. [12] [13] President: Annette Castro Ramirez. The current Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation leaders at the Arboretum are: [12]
Christmas Tree Lane is a 0.7-mile (1.1 km) boulevard of deodar cedar trees in Altadena, California. The trees on the Lane, Santa Rosa Avenue, have been lighted annually as a Christmas Holiday display since 1920. The association that runs it claims it is "the oldest large-scale outdoor Christmas display in the world".
A vintage postcard bearing a 1947 postmark, f rom the collection of L.A. Times reporter Patt Morrison, tells the story of Altadena's Christmas Tree Lane, although the dates differ from the ...
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Many municipalities and utilities around L.A. offer free trees for residents to plant in their yards or they will add trees to parkways. Here's a list.
The Oak Tree Association became the operator of the autumn meet at Santa Anita Park. This meet usually ran from the end of September until early November. Many key stakes races were held during the Oak Tree Meeting, including many preps to the Breeders' Cup races. The Oak Tree meet relocated to Hollywood Park for 2010 [12] but the California ...
The Jurupa Oak, or Hurungna Oak, [1] [2] is a clonal colony of Quercus palmeri (Palmer's oak) trees in the Jurupa Mountains in Crestmore Heights, Riverside County, California. The colony has survived an estimated 13,000 years through clonal reproduction, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] making it one of the world's oldest living trees . [ 5 ]