Kathleen Underwood’s neighbor recently told her that her air conditioning hasn’t been turning on much despite the heat.

It's a small oak shrub, nestled in the hills over Jurupa Valley. Known as the Jurupa Oak, or Palmer's Oak, it's not very big, and resembles a shrub more than it does a tree.

“Old Glory,”, a 400 year-old oak tree in Santa Clarita, CA, was designated as a LA County Historic Landmark on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024 by the LA County Board of Supervisors. (Photo by David ...

The Jurupa Oak is older than almost any other plant on Earth. Environmentalists and locals worry that the ancient tree is under threat from a force in modern California: development.

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