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When people think of Los Angeles they always picture Palm Trees. Palm Trees are an invasive species, but they are still an important part of Southern California's landscape. Learn all about the city's trees in politics, history, art, sports and even in the entertainment industry.

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Sue Mitchell made a year-long project of paying close attention to the natural world at Riverside's Fairmount Park, then transformed what she discovered into art.
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If the Mojave Desert gets some rain in the next six weeks, then we might just see one of the desert's least-understood phenomena take place, as Joshua trees work to create a new generation of themselves.
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All life on earth, every thing that lives and has ever lived, every bird and beetle and box elder tree shares a common ancestor. We are each and every one of us related, each and every one of us the front of an impossibly ancient flood of genes rising ...
Tree stumps remain along Manchester Boulevard where workers have cut down some of the almost 400 trees slated removal to make way for moving the space shuttle Endeavour to its new home at Exposition Park on September 5. | Photo: David McNew/Getty Images
Losing hundreds of trees in Inglewood and South Central to create a temporary path for a space shuttle is the unkindest cut.
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Buckling sidewalks, decomposing streets, leaking water mains, and failing sewers add up to a city that's lost focus and is losing the faith of its residents.
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You don't need a bunch of venture capital to trash the desert. All you need is a some wheels and a stunted set of ethics.
Incendiary Traces examines the role that real estate and the railroad played in the advertisement of Southern California as a fertile tropical utopia in the late 1800s.
Edward Vischer's pre-1875 drawing of El Aliso in the courtyard of the Vignes winery. Courtesy of the Title Insurance and Trust / C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, USC Libraries.
El Aliso -- a massive, ancient sycamore -- stood at the center of the Tongva village of Yaanga and later shaded the cellars of early wine and beer makers.
Two men demonstrate the girth of a 25-year-old eucalytpus tree on the L. J. Rose ranch in Rosemead, circa 1900. Courtesy of the Title Insurance and Trust / C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, USC Libraries.
The eucalyptus, or gum tree, is an invader from an alien botanical world. It arrived from Australia in the 1850s.
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Councilman Paul Krekorian has released an infographic about how he is spending a portion of the budget for their San Fernando Valley district.
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Trees are miraculous but they will not solve the riddles of climate change.
A ranger stands in a grove of knocked-down trees near Rainbow Falls after the November 30, 2011 wind storm | Photo: Courtesy Inyo National Forest
"The real danger is that a lot of trees haven't completely come down. They are hanging, still buckling," said Nancy Upham of the Inyo National Forest. "More wind will push the trees over eventually."
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