The ancient trees once grew as far away as Russia, but were killed off by the last ice age in all but the coastal fog belt in California and southern Oregon, according to forestry experts.
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"We have a coast and a fog belt just like you do ( in Northern California ), so it's not a surprise that it got here, but it got here more quickly than we thought ( it would ).
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When planted in areas with hot summers, for example in interior California away from the coastal fog belt, Monterey cypress has proved highly susceptible to cypress canker, caused by the fungus " Seiridium cardinale ", and rarely survives more than a few years.
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Oppedahl was born in Duluth, Minn ., and moved with his parents and younger sister, Mary, to San Francisco's fog belt when he was 9 . His mother, Lucille, worked as a secretary; his father, Walter, ran a laundry that he had taken over from his own father.
