The news article last week about “Modoc Trees Granted Reprieve” forgot to educate the reading public: The only indigenous palm in California is the Washingtonia filifera (desert fan palm), whose natural habitat is the Mojave Desert — never as far west as Los Angeles or Santa Barbara! Protect the Land Trust acreage, not these palms!

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