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Hooker Oak was an extremely large valley oak tree (Quercus lobata) in Chico, California. Amateur botanist and local socialite Annie Bidwell , whose husband had founded Chico, named the tree in 1887 after English botanist and Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker .
Oak Park High School's class of 1983 was the first graduating class. They were the maiden class; they were upperclassmen each year ninth through 12th grade. In 1999 the United States Postal Service assigned Oak Park its own ZIP code, 91377. [10] Oak Park previously shared the ZIP code 91301 with its neighboring town of Agoura Hills. [17]
Those 24 acres (10 ha) were purchased by the City of Los Angeles in 1966 for $400,000. [5] The city-owned property includes a Spanish-style adobe residence, extensive gardens, oak trees hundreds of years old, Dayton Creek, nature trails, fruit orchards, rose gardens, community garden plots, picnic tables and a multitude of exotic trees, plants ...
An Inland Empire city has approved a development project 450 feet away from the third oldest known living organism in the world — a sprawling, shrub-like oak tree that is more than 13,000 years old.
Joshua Tree National Park is a US National Park located in southeastern California, straddling north-central Riverside County and part of southern San Bernardino County. Named after the endemic Joshua tree ( Yucca brevifolia ), found in the park and surrounding areas, Joshua Tree is situated some 130 miles (211 km) east of the city of Los ...
The restored Grant Ranch Cabin has been furnished to represent living conditions in the late 1800s. The Deer Hollow Farm section of the Rancho San Antonio land preserve is managed by the City of Mountain View recreation division. The city manages all Farm programs and ensures that no further development takes place on the land. The city of ...
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 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.