Readers React: L.A. lost a 144-year-old fig tree. Here’s why a native oak should replace it
5 years, 9 months ago

Readers React: L.A. lost a 144-year-old fig tree. Here’s why a native oak should replace it

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To the editor: With a touch of nostalgia, we bid farewell to a fig tree that stood in the birthplace of Los Angeles for 144 years before collapsing suddenly on March 2. The new oak could be surrounded by other California native species that ordinarily coexist with Quercus agrifolia and that would eventually form an appropriate understory for the oak. As the surviving fig trees in El Pueblo de Los Angeles expire, which they are likely to do, native oaks could replace them as well. To the editor: What an amazing story about the demise of the 144-year-old Moreton Bay fig tree in downtown Los Angeles.

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