The Mighty Oaks

The oak trees play an important role within the Tejon Ranch ecology and the Centennial community. There are 181,000 oak trees living on the Centennial site now.

Ninety-nine percent will be protected and preserved. For every oak tree that must be removed, more will be planted in its place. Three new oaks will be planted for each standard size and ten for every heritage size. All in all, over 5,000 new oaks will be planted. Besides the present oaks on site, another estimated 268,000 oaks will be preserved in our off-site mitigation areas. There will be a nursery on-site to nurture the new trees which will be planted in the community, or to expand nearby existing oak tree stands.