The Southland is due for another round of high winds tonight through Thursday, so you may want to make a feast of your most perishable food items from your fridge tonight and stock up on flashlight batteries in case your power goes out. more ›

To help get some Los Angeles-area kids familiar with fruit and how it grows, San Diego-based Stretch Island Fruit Co. brought their "Fruit Tree 101" program up north earlier this week to help get over 70 fruit trees planted on campuses. more ›

The Highland Park gallery Monte Vista is letting patrons check out a tree this season. You can call it a Christmas tree rental service, but they don't and the name they've chosen — the Portable Forest Tree Library — sounds way cooler. more ›

A eucalyptus tree took a tumble in Corona Del Mar yesterday, hitting four cars and two homes, according to the Daily Pilot. Fortunately, no one was injured. Normally news of a falling tree is as hyperlocal as it gets. It's the sort of thing you might hear about at a neighborhood council meeting. But this latest development seems unsettling, since it's at least the fourth time falling eucalyptus trees have made news within a few weeks. more ›

Experts are still trying to figure out what would cause a tree to fall on a woman's car while she waited at a stoplight in Costa Mesa. One theory being floated to explain the tragic and freaky accident is that Thursday morning's 3.5 rattler might have loosened the tree. more ›

Firefighters are disputing the accounts of witnesses who were standing by as rescue teams from Newport Beach and Costa Mesa tried to save a woman who was fatally crushed by a towering eucalyptus tree yesterday. Witnesses initially reported that firefighters conducting the rescue operation dropped the trunk back onto the car, which crushed it even further. more ›

A woman was killed by a eucalyptus tree in a center divider that fell onto her car, while she was at a stoplight in Costa Mesa this afternoon. A witness told ABC 7 that the woman was crushed a second time — and apparently killed — when firefighters tried to lift the tree off the vehicle and dropped it on the car a second time. more ›

One of Santa Monica's nicknames is "Tree City U.S.A." so it's no wonder trees are serious business there. While one pursuit is turn the seaside city into a giant, functional arboretum, currently the city is asking their residents to chime in about "replacement trees" designated for their residential streets as part of SaMo's Urban Forest Master Plan. more ›

An arboretum is, in essence, a collection of trees, though by contemporary definition, it is a place dedicated to conservation of and education about trees. Now Santa Monica is beginning to explore the possibility of being "the first city-wide arboretum in the world," according to The LookOut News. more ›

Yes, it's Friday but it's also Save the Frogs Day AND Arbor Day. A perfect opportunity for a tree- and frog-filled gallery featuring photos from the LAist Featured Photos Flickr Pool! more ›

UC Irvine, recognized recently by the Urban Land Institute and Princeton Review's "Green Colleges" for its sustainability and energy efficiency efforts, has won a tree-planting grant from the ADF and Toyota and will celebrate Earth Day on Friday April 22 with an on-campus, volunteer tree planting in Aldrich Park, reports the UC Newsroom. more ›

The Angeles National Forest is still painfully scarred from the devastating 2009 Station Fire, and today comes word from the U.S. Forest Service that a project will find 3 million pine and fir trees planted in a 10,000-acre region over the next five years. As part of what is being hailed as "the first ecological response" to the massive blaze, those incoming trees will "offset greenhouse-gas emissions from a refinery in El Segundo," according to the LA Times. more ›

Ventura County is under quarantine, according to officials, after an aphid-like citrus pest that can carry an untreatable disease was discovered in Camarillo, reports the Associated Press. This weekend, California's Department of Food and Agriculture is expected to survey the area before beginning two pesticide treatments. more ›

The Milagro Allegro community garden at Avenue 56 and Figueroa hosted a garden giveaway this weekend. Advertised to start at noon, by 12:30 some 500 people had made a line that stretched down the block and around the corner. By 12:45 the trees were gone. That left 50,000 vegetable seedlings to make sure everyone ended up with something to plant at their school garden, in their neighborhood or yes, their backyard. more ›

A brave LAist operative sent in a photo of a fire in Burbank on N. Buena Vista Street and Victory. Early reports suggest a metal balloon hit the power lines around 3:30 p.m. blowing a transformer and igniting trees. Power is reportedly out in the area and there is some concern about the fire spreading to local businesses and properties. More as the story develops. Or (hopefully) doesn't. more ›

Protesters who oppose the County's removal of trees in the Arcadia Woodlands took to the trees themselves today in order to offer resistance to the bulldozers poised to take the oaks down. A local Sierra Club member confirmed to Arcadia Patch that the protesters are not affiliated with their organization, but did say that the protesters "had climbed 40 to 50 feet high in the oak trees," in order to make their position known. more ›

According to authorities, a 24-year-old Fullerton man died while snowboarding at Mountain High ski resort in Wrightwood, CA on Monday. The accident was reported at 6:06 p.m., says the San Bernardino Coroner’s Office. The victim collided with trees and was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. His name has not yet been released. more ›

Not that the University of California wants to scare the crap out of us or anything but they'd like us to know this: "Foreign pests are eating their way through our national forests, destroying majestic scenery and costing taxpayers millions of dollars." more ›

Conservationists are up in limbs about a plan by Los Angeles County officials to plow 179 oak trees and 70 sycamores in an 11-acre canyon near Arcadia. The grove is currently scheduled, "to become a spreading ground for 500,000 cubic yards of silt, rocks and vegetation scooped out of Santa Anita Reservoir," reports the LA Times. more ›

The two-plus year, $8.9-million project along Sepulveda Boulevard in Westchester has finally been completed, officials announced today. As one of the main access routes to LAX, Sepulveda in Westchester was (and sometimes still can be) a headache for commuters, travelers and locals. The project between Lincoln and Howard Hughes Parkway brought improved sidewalks, landscaped medians, upgraded streetlights, new shrubbery, 193 new trees, a storm drain and catch basins. It also widened the street to three lanes in each direction with a street parking lane in the business district. more ›

Last month at Unique LA hi Tree stood out in a forest of eye catching booths. Designer Tina Rodas creates whimsical leaf jewelry, owl totes, and plush tree shaped pillows. Her felt trees are adorned with happy hearts. With apples on tote bags, mushrooms on coin purses, and woodland creature names Mr. Chameleon, the world of hi Tree turned our day into a dreamy surreal landscape. more ›

Photographer honeybeejen submitted this photo to our LAist Featured Photo pool on Flickr earlier this week asking "What the heck happened here??" It was taken in Claremont, but we sought out the advice of George Gonzalez, Los Angeles' Chief Forester. more ›

In the next few days and weeks, cherry blossoms are about to blanket the branches of local trees with their gorgeous blooms. Last weekend LAist headed out to Encino to the Lake Balboa area to see some early blooms, and today the Daily News has a listing of other places around town where you and yours can enjoy the cheerful springtime sight of cherry blossoms, take a stroll, snap some picks, and get outside. more ›

At a February 9th meeting, the Pasadena City Council voted to go ahead with their over ten-year-old plan to remove 43 ficus trees from streets in the area, particularly many on Colorado Boulevard that share the land with popular local businesses. more ›

It's not the nicest way to wake up on what is a holiday for many: A large tree fell over during the rainstorm this morning in Laurel Canyon, "knocking down three power poles, blocking Wonderland Avenue and interrupting electricity to about 1,700 customers," according to the Daily News. more ›

Earlier this month the Pasadena City Council voted to approve a plan to "remove 43 mature trees from along Colorado Boulevard-as well as side streets between Lake Avenue and Los Robles Boulevard" and replace them with younger trees that would cause less damage to city sidewalks. more ›

It's a Christmas Tree, a Hanukkah Bush, or a Kwanzaa Shrub. Call it what you will, but the bottom line is, it's a chopped down tree you hauled home on the roof of your car sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve and it's now a brittle fire hazard taking up space in the house you resolved on January 1st to "Keep More Clean!" You may have also resolved to "Be More Green!" so let's start with recycling that Christmas Tree. more ›

Jerry Peace Activist Rubin followed through with what he said he would do if he had to after a year of battling with the city of Santa Monica over trees. Yesterday, he tied himself to a ficus tree that was being dug up and removed. Santa Monica Police arrested him for "resisting or interfering with a police officer." In a letter posted on the Treesavers' website, a writer says Rubin's actions were a powerful statement, especially in an election year: more ›

Earlier this morning, tree activists from the group Treesavers reportedly chained themselves to ficus trees scheduled to be relocated by the city from 4th Street in Santa Monica. During the protest the Treesaver himself, Jerry 'Peace Activist' Rubin was arrested by police for "resisting or interfering with a police officer," according to Sergeant Renaldi Thruston. As of 2:00 p.m. Rubin, who is running for City Council this November, was still in custody. Treesavers believed the removal of the trees would harm them. In May, Santa Monica cut down over 20 trees on 3rd and 4th streets (see photos here). more ›

If there is anywhere you would expect a Tree Commission to exist, it would be Santa Monica. After the uprooting of 23 trees on 2nd and 4th streets (see photos here), the activist group Treesavers is urging City Hall to form a Tree Commission. The Santa Monica City Council was scheduled to take it up last month, but it was postponed until later this month. "Positive, passionate and polite phone calls supporting the establishment of a Santa Monica Tree Commission should be sent in an ongoing manner,starting today," writes head Treesaver, Jerry Rubin. more ›