(This content was created with the help of AI.) One of the world’s oldest trees just got a wider personal bubble in suburban Southern California.
After years of fights over a massive development in Jurupa Valley, city officials, conservationists, and developer Richland Communities have agreed to expand protections around a gnarled Palmer’s oak believed to be roughly 13,000 years old and sacred to the Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians’ Kizh Nation.
The compromise calls for 54 acres of open space around the ancient plant—considered among the world’s oldest living organisms—and pushes the nearest edge of the planned Rio Vista project from 450 feet to 1,000 feet away, per SFGate…