Non-native grasses and eucalyptus trees brought to California centuries ago for agriculture and landscaping have reshaped the ...

Instead, the trees proved surprisingly useful as windbreaks for highways, orange groves, and other farms. Even today, a drive through California will take you past countless eucalyptus groves ...

I have lived in California for almost eighty years, and for me a tree such as the eucalyptus, with all its beauty and majesty, has been a “given” of its natural environment. Until recently ...

Several proud men standing by giant eucalyptus trees on East Lake Avenue in Watsonville, circa 1913. Eucalyptus trees were ...

Praises to our San Diego fire department for making short work of the Gilman fire. If it had reached the UCSD campus with ...

Faced with more drought and increasingly frequent wildfires, Southern Californians have been encouraged, for years, to rip out water-guzzling lawns. They have also been urged to forgo nonnative, ...

Cruel trolls have circulated an old post blaming California’s latest bushfires on eucalyptus trees. Experts have hosed down claims the highly-flammable tree is responsible for the latest disaster.

Faced with more drought and increasingly frequent wildfires, southern Californians have been encouraged for years to rip out water-guzzling lawns. They have also been urged to forgo non-native, ...