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The Shumway Oak Grove Regional Park in Stockton launched an autumn nature walk for the community to get an inside look at how important California's historic oak trees are, especially during the fall.

Shortly before 2000, California oaks began dying. The University of California launched an investigation. What was causing this plague, and how might California oaks be kept healthy? A water-borne ...

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Volunteers paint lime wash on an oak tree that is dying from a beetle infestation in Silverado Canyon on Thursday. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) The tree was dead. Ron Durbin, who trekked ...

It’s less than a half-inch long but it can fell a giant oak tree in no time. The goldspotted oak borer, GSOB or Agrilus auroguttatus, is a 0.4-inch bullet-shaped beetle with six golden spots on its ...

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.

The goldspotted oak-borer, an invasive beetle responsible for killing 200,000 trees in Southern California, is now present in Ventura County. It's the northernmost reach of the insect.

Ron Durbin, who trekked with a group into a rugged Santa Clarita canyon, quickly spotted nearby trees pockmarked with D-shaped “exit holes,” a deadly calling card. This was the work of the goldspotted ...

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