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Palm Springs City Council approves new palm tree skirt removal policy

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By Erin Rode Verified
| The Palm Springs Post Verified
A city crew removes the remains of a palm tree skirt after it crashed to the ground in March 2024 in Downtown Palm Springs, injuring a woman and her infant son. (File photo) The Palm Springs City Council on Wednesday approved a makeover project for many of the city’s estimated 2,150 California fan palms, with some exceptions for trees in specific areas. Palm Springs is home to thousands of palm trees of both the Mexican fan palm and California fan palm varieties.
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Guerrilla kayakers saved the LA River. Today, you can ride along with them.

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By Erin Rode Verified
| SFGate Verified
Just minutes before, I was floating in a kayak along a tranquil section of the Los Angeles River, watching a series of mini-waterfalls cascading off an island of vegetation in the middle of the waterway. Then my kayak turned sideways and hit a rock. I fell straight into the much-maligned urban river, my brain panicking for a fraction of a second before I remembered I could simply stand up in the shin-deep water.
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Family of child killed on Calif. national park land to receive $14M

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By Erin Rode Verified
| SFGate Verified
The family of an 8-year-old boy killed by a falling tree branch at a park in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area will receive over $14 million in settlement funds from the public agency that manages the park, SFGATE has learned. Lamar McGlothurn was attending a summer day camp at King Gillette Ranch last July when a 100-pound branch from a decaying tree fell onto the picnic table where he was sitting.
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