A 13,000 year old oak tree in Jurupa Valley will now be protected thanks to an agreement between environmentalists and a real estate developer. Conservation groups had sued over a housing project that they say would have killed the tree.
The Jurupa Oak tree has been around since the Ice age, shared Len Nunney with the Friends of Riverside’s Hills.
“And it’s unique botanically because not only because of its age,” said Nunney, “but because it’s actually survived as climate has changed. As far as we know, it’s the only remaining representative of its species that’s anywhere near our area.”…