What caused a healthy 60-foot pine tree to snap at the base and crash down on Torrey Pines Road during rush hour last week? Typically, wet weather can soften areas around roots. But May 14 was dry ...

This initial idea evolved into “Rare Trees Sacred Canyons: Torrey Pines — San Diego’s Symbol of Preservation,” a bold, beautiful and historically nuanced look at not only the rarest tree ...

ENCINITASENCINITAS — A Torrey pine ravaged by a bark beetle infestation will be removed from Swami’s park in Encinitas around Jan. 13. As of Wednesday the 80-plus-year-old towering tree had ...

Plans to remove a decades-old Torrey Pine tree in Ocean Beach, the site of a sit-in protest last week, will be put on hold, at least temporarily. Despite push-back from OB residents, the 73-foot ...

SAN DIEGO – Several residents were angered Monday morning as they watched crews remove a 73-year-old Torrey pine in Ocean Beach. Earlier this month, city officials said the tree at 4652 Saratoga ...

“Unlike Torrey pine, populations are not separated by the ocean, but habitat fragmentation and ‘sky islands’ — where tree species have retreated to deal with warmer climatic conditions ...

The former Second Daughter got married in a casual ceremony under an historic Torrey Pine tree Sandra Sobieraj Westfall is a former national political correspondent, digital writer and editor at ...

City officials had said the nearly century-old Torrey pine at 4652 Saratoga Ave. was in danger of falling, but opponents contended the city hadn’t adequately explained why the tree had to be ...

The rarest American pine tree, sinewy branches full of needles and cones, towers in clusters along the sandy trail of Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve. Then, three bare, brown trees droop on a ...

On Tuesday, June 30, the last of a 100-foot-tall Torrey pine was cut down at the San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas. It took six workers 35 hours to remove the tree, one of four rare Torrey ...

Hamilton's research group in the College of Agricultural Sciences has studied the plight of Torrey pine over the last decade and how it may yield lessons that could guide efforts to save tree ...