San Diego Union-Tribune

Making a case for palm trees in California landscaping and urban planning

Can you imagine San Diego without palm trees? I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and have associated palms with Southern California since I visited my cousins in Pasadena during the 1960s. When I ...
SFGate

Palms up! / Only one kind is native to the state, but California is defined by these trees

The first time I visited California, I drove west from Indiana on Interstate 80, across the Sierra Nevada and down through the foothills toward the Central Valley. Somewhere around Auburn in Placer ...
Capital Public Radio

Dozens of 141-year-old Sacramento palm trees are struggling to survive at the Capitol

Paula Peper squinted and looked up at a line of palm trees near the California state Capitol on N Street. “Yeah, that’s gone,” the retired urban ecologist said, pointing to a California fan palm with ...
The Vindicator

U.S. filing seeks forfeiture of California Palms funds

YOUNGSTOWN — A new civil filing by the U.S. Attorney’s Office asks a federal judge to order forfeiture of $603,903 seized from the bank accounts of the California Palms Addiction Recovery Campus in ...