Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. An annual reforestation project to plant more ...

On a warm July morning, the Monterey pine forest surrounding Cambria was alive with sound: the faint buzzing of insects, chirps of nearby birds and crunching footsteps of an occasional deer navigating ...

According to botanist John Thomas Howell’s “Marin Flora,” five pine species grow in Marin. Bishop pine, Monterey pine, knobcone pine, Torrey pine and Coulter pine can be distinguished from each other ...

Rick Hawley of Greenspace — The Cambria Land Trust — virtually shows Santa Lucia Middle School students how to plant Monterey pine seeds, using contents of a kit the land trust provided so the ...

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — Driving Route 92 from the San Francisco peninsula to the Pacific coast in late fall, you may begin to hear music, laughter and get a whiff of pine and fir trees. You’ve found ...

COOS BAY — A Monterey pine is being removed from Mingus Park by Patrick Myers Tree Service, a task that took most of two days to complete and should be done by Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 30. The ...

Christmas is almost here so folks are sending cards, buying and mailing gifts, but it seems like most folks are a bit slow in getting their Christmas trees up this year. Don’t delay any longer since ...