The tree was dead. Durbin described the goldspotted oak borer as “just like a cancer.” It has spread across Southern California since its discovery in 2008 in San Diego County, where it has slaughtered more than 80,000 trees. “It’s really just a couple of firewood distributors away from the Santa Monica Mountains.” The goldspotted oak borer reaching the scenic coastal …
California is littered with tributes to past and present politicians — courthouses, roads, bridges, schools, parks, even an aqueduct, all named after elected officials anxious to ensure that their legacies live on long after they are gone. Jerry Brown, who rebuffed the naming convention both as the state’s youngest governor in modern times and the oldest, consented to lend his …
A rare beetle species found on former California Gov. Jerry Brown’s Colusa County ranch has been named after him: Bembidion brownorum. Bembidion brownorum was last seen in 1966, but it hadn’t been named or described until one was collected near a creek on Brown’s ranch in Colusa County, about an hour’s drive northwest of Sacramento, UC Berkeley announced Monday. “I’m …
