Artist Doug Smith, left, and Natasha Markov-Riss, the owner of Baba’s Cafe, with the octopus Smith carved from a tree stump in front of the Peaks Island cafe. Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer.

“Old Glory,” a roughly 400-year-old Valley Oak tree in Stevenson Ranch, became a Los Angeles County Historic Landmark this week. Why it matters: But it wasn’t always a walk in the park to ...

A Casey Trees worker measured the the circumference of the Northampton Oak last summer. Photograph by Evy Mages . That said, the Northampton Oak did have its moment of arboreal glory in 2006 when the ...

The shrub-like oak tree has been a fixture of the landscape since mastodons and saber-toothed cats last roamed Southern California. California city OK's project near world's oldest oak tree - Los ...

He learned the tree was destroyed around midnight Sept. 27 after Hurricane Helene’s 60 mph winds swept through campus. One section of the tree fell onto Norman Hall.