California Botanic Garden 70 trees uprooted by wind

[ad_1] When the Santa Ana winds stormed through Southern California on Jan. 21, they toppled trees and knocked out power in much of Claremont, but Lucinda McDade, executive director of California Botanic Garden, was mostly worried about frozen seeds — embryos for the thousands of rare plants in the seed bank of the state’s largest botanic garden dedicated to native plants. She heard the wind howling that night and was concerned that the outage would…

"California Botanic Garden 70 trees uprooted by wind"