into the national spotlight, the city council approved a plan on Thursday night to build a development next to the Jurupa Oak, an ancient tree that has survived since the last ice age. The vote ...

JURUPA VALLEY, Calif.— The Jurupa Valley City Council ... would also put this special tree at great risk. “The Horuuvunga Oak is not just a tree, it is a living symbol of our ancestral connection to ...

But those shrubs are just the crown of a giant, spreading oak tree, 90 feet long and 30 feet wide. Most of the tree is underground. The Planning Commission of Jurupa Valley, a city of 100,000 an ...

Nestled between two boulders on a low rise in the Jurupa Hills of Riverside County, a good 30 miles from its nearest living relative, lies the ultimate survivor -- an oak bush that researchers ...

The Jurupa Oak, located in Jurupa Hills and estimated to be at least 13,000 years old, resembles a bush more than a tree, standing just 3 feet high and sprawling to cover more than 80 feet.

Nor is it one of the giant sequoias. 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 ...

In California’s Jurupa Mountains, there is a very unusual group of tree – a Palmer’s oak. Unlike the mighty trees that usually bear the oak name, this one looks like little more than a ...