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New oak grove being created at South Coast park

Ventura Tree Alliance

It's a way of enhancing community health and well-being. The effort to bring more trees to an urban community on the South Coast starts Thursday.

Around ten new oak trees are being planted at Community Park in Ventura, as part of a bigger project to add an oak grove of fifty trees - spearheaded by the non-profit Ventura Tree Alliance.

Barbara Brown is one of the organizers and she told KCLU she was inspired to start the project after noticing how many empty tree wells were in the city.

She said: "A healthy urban forest enhances community health and well-being. Trees are a climate solution. They moderate heat and wind, mitigate building energy use and CO2 emissions, improve air and water quality, decrease rainfall runoff and flooding, provide homes for plants and animals and lower sound pollution.

"And like anyone who wants to do their part to make a difference for the future of our world, this is a small thing that can make a big difference."

There will be volunteer opportunities to assist with planting and mulching. More information on the project is at www.venturatreealliance.com.

Caroline joined KCLU in October 2020. She won LA Press Club's Audio Journalist of the Year Award for three consecutive years in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Since joining the station she's also won 11 Golden Mike Awards, 8 Los Angeles Press Club Journalism Awards, 4 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards and three Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for Excellence in Writing, Diversity and Use of Sound.

She started her broadcasting career in the UK, in both radio and television for BBC News, 95.8 Capital FM and Sky News and was awarded by Prince Philip for her services to radio and journalism in 2007.

She has lived in California for twelve years and is both an American and British citizen - and a very proud mom to her daughter, Elsie.