The old sycamore was on my mind when, a few months ago, I got the idea to find and visit the greatest trees in all of Los Angeles. The idea wasn’t entirely my own — I was cribbing it from a ...

Note, too, that while Los Angeles County and several municipalities may not provide free yard trees — the county spends almost all of its $20 million budget for trees on trimming or otherwise ...

Planting trees in honor of Arbor Day dates back to 1872, and while climate and landscape factors have changed since the holiday's inception, the motivation remains crucial.

Malarich’s first (and most headline-grabbing) task was to coordinate a planting blitz of 90,000 trees by the end of 2021. The pandemic slowed things, so that target stretched to 2022; as of ...

"Los Angeles is not what you see in the movies. It's like Detroit with palm trees." — Don Draper Look at some old photos of the Los Angeles landscape and you may notice something is missing ...

If trees had a resume, the trees in Los Angeles would need a serious resume update. A recent University of Southern California study shows that the city’s urban forest isn’t just providing ...

Once upon a time — well, in 1928, actually — the city of Los Angeles took the progressive step of opening the Commonwealth Nursery in Griffith Park, which over the next 50 years grew millions ...

The old sycamore was on my mind when, a few months ago, I got the idea to find and visit the greatest trees in all of Los Angeles. The idea wasn’t entirely my own — I was cribbing it from a ...