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The Last Working Orange Grove in the San Fernando Valley to Give Way to Homes

The news of a possible sale triggered alarms that the orange grove would be plowed under. Robert Gohstand, a geography professor emeritus who decades earlier helped save a much smaller, nonworking orange grove at California State University, Northridge, called it irreplaceable. “It serves as a marvelous green ‘lung’ for our suburban environment,” Gohstand said.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/the-last-working-orange-grove-in-the-san-fernando-valley-to-give-way-to-homes-b0a0d191

The Wall Street Journal 

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