The one that fell on Ngai's Honda sedan just before noon Monday "had been dead for a long time," Wolcott said. "The inside was littered with Monterey pine trees, whose natural habitat is the ...

A fast-spreading disease is infecting Monterey pines throughout Marin County, leaving behind dead and dying trees that present a fire hazard and cost thousands of dollars to remove.

Bishop pine, Monterey pine, knobcone pine, Torrey pine and Coulter pine can be distinguished from each other by their needles and cones. Bishop pine is the only pine native to Marin.

Monterey pines are important to the existence and character of Cambria. The facts are, Monterey pines are native only along the California coast and on two islands off Baja California.

On a warm July morning, the Monterey pine forest surrounding Cambria was alive with sound: the faint buzzing of insects, chirps of nearby birds and crunching footsteps of an occasional deer ...

Seven-thousand Monterey pine tree seedlings were planted. This year's goal is to plant 1,000 seedlings, marking another step toward the 10,000 trees planned for Hearst San Simeon State Park.