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OAKLAND -- It was more than a tree to Pat Cashman.

He passed through the shade of the towering manna gum eucalyptus thousands of times, by his estimation, on runs and bicycle rides around Lake Merritt. When he and his wife, Naoko, decided to marry, they held their wedding beneath its canopy. They could see it from their home across the lake.

Then, on the night of Nov. 21, came word that a large tree near the Lake Chalet restaurant had fallen during unusually high winds that buffeted the Bay Area.

"I was hoping it wasn't our tree," Cashman said. "It wasn't clear at first. In the morning, when it cleared up, we looked out and said, 'Yeah, that was our tree. It's gone.'"

Though smaller limbs and most of the leaves have been removed from the tree, the trunk, root ball (weighing 47 tons) and stumps of several branches remain. On Saturday, Oakland's Public Works Agency held a ceremony to honor the tree that once stood 120 feet tall and served as a landmark to generations of Oakland residents.

"We felt it was really important to honor this beautiful tree that has been here for over 150 years," said Brooke Levin, interim director of Oakland's Public Works Agency. "Oakland was born in 1852, so it's been here most of Oakland's existence."

Monte Coyote, an Oakland city employee who asked to be identified by his Native American name, officiated what he said was not so much a ceremony as it was "an offer and a blessing." Coyote told about 50 onlookers that he was drawn to the fallen tree after seeing it had been targeted by graffiti artists. Coyote said he has visited the tree every day since it crashed to the ground, painting over the graffiti and talking with passers-by.

"This tree has seen beatniks, hippies, disco, punk rock, Occupy," he said. "Now it's bringing people together. It's like a UFO landed here."

Against the backdrop of burning sage and soft tribal drums, Coyote moved around the crowd singing a Native American song. After the event, onlookers were offered cuttings from the tree as mementos.

Levin estimated it will cost $20,000, possibly more, to remove the tree. The city soon will begin accepting bids from contractors.

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Q: Before all this snow came and covered the ground, I saw plants that looked like dandelions. However, I remembered that there are other weeds that look like dandelions and wondered if they may be a problem. What can I do about them?

A: There are several weeds that are common and in their juvenile stage look much like dandelions. London rocket (a common relative of mustard), prickly lettuce and some sowthistle seedlings may be what you observed. They will survive the cold weather and can be problems in your garden next year. Some are perennial and others are annual weeds. Your local NMSU Extension Service office can help you identify these weeds and determine appropriate measures to manage specific weeds.

London rocket, a mustard weed, is a host known to overwinter curly top virus which will infect your tomatoes and chiles next year. For that reason, it is important to eliminate as many of them as possible from the vicinity of your garden (from as much of your property as possible). It is recognizable by the mustard oil fragrance of its crushed leaves. It is not prickly like some of the other weeds mentioned.

Prickly lettuce and sowthistles are in the sunflower family because they have flowers with the same structure as sunflowers, but their flower heads are much smaller. They are often prickly and when the leaves and stem are broken usually exude a milky sap. Some are annual and biennial weeds and some are perennial. This characteristic determines how you must manage these weeds. They are not as notorious as the mustards for spreading disease, but they are not good plants to allow near your garden.

With the annual weeds such as mustards, prickly lettuce and some sowthistles, the key is to remove them before they can form seeds. This may be done with herbicides, but manual removal is often fairly easy to accomplish by cutting the top from the root with a hoe or another garden implement. The mustard weeds should absolutely be removed before you plant tomatoes and chiles next spring.

The perennial weeds are a little more difficult to manage because they can regrow from a small piece of root left in the ground. Some of these weeds can have an extensive root system, so physical management by hoeing and tilling becomes more difficult, but not impossible. There are also herbicides that may be used to manage these weeds, but it is critical to use the proper product and to use it carefully according to the label direction. Your NMSU County Extension agent can help you determine the best method for managing your weeds and minimizing problems in your garden. You will also find that the book, Weeds of the West, published by the Western Society of Weed Science is a good reference for helping you identify the weeds in your garden and landscape.

Send your gardening questions to Yard and Garden, Attn: Dr. Curtis Smith, NMSU Agricultural Science Center, 1036 Miller Rd. SW, Los Lunas, NM 87031. Curtis W. Smith, Ph.D., is an Extension Horticulture Specialist emeritus with New Mexico State University's Cooperative Extension Service. NMSU and the U.S. Department of Agriculture cooperating.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. With just more than 2 minutes left in the New Mexico Bowl, Washington State held an eight-point lead against an opponent that had been outmanned and outclassed throughout the game and had no timeoutsleft.

Fans eyed the exits, reporters across the social media landscape wrote the game off as over and just about everyone in the stadium was certain that WSU had alreadywon.

Everyone, including theCougars.

We got too complacent; kind of thought we won the game early, senior Justin Sagote said after the Cougars 48-45 loss to ColoradoState.

CSU linebacker Shaquil Barrett

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Colorado States Jake Schlager, right, recovers fumble by WSUs Teondray Caldwell (34) on late kickoff returnSaturday. (Full-size photo)

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2:52Grayson 12-yard TD pass to Vaden. Roberts converts the PAT45-37

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. With just more than 2 minutes left in the New Mexico Bowl, Washington State held an eight-point lead against an opponent which had been outmanned and outclassed throughout the game and had no timeouts left. Fans eyed the exits, reporters across the social media landscape wrote the game off as over and just about everyone in the stadium were certain that WSU had already won. Everyone, including the Cougars. We got too complacent, kind of thought we won the game early, senior Justin Sagote said after the Cougars 48-45 loss to Colorado State. CSU linebacker Shaquil Barrett

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Washington Staterunning back Theron West (24) celebrates his touchdown with teammate Marcus Mason during the first half of the New Mexico Bowl NCAA college football game against ColoradoState (Full-size photo)

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. With just more than 2 minutes left in the New Mexico Bowl, Washington State held an eight-point lead against an opponent which had been outmanned and outclassed throughout the game and had no timeouts left.

Fans eyed the exits, reporters across the social media landscape wrote the game off as over and just about everyone in the stadium were certain that WSU had already won.

Everyone, including the Cougars.

We got too complacent, kind of thought we won the game early, senior Justin Sagote said after the Cougars 48-45 loss to Colorado State.

CSU linebacker Shaquil Barrett forced a fumble, recovered it himself, and the Rams promptly scored, tying the game on the two-point conversion by running a delayed handoff to Donnell Alexander known as the Statue of Liberty play.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- With just more than 2 minutes left in the New Mexico Bowl, Washington State held an eight-point lead against an opponent that had been outmanned and outclassed throughout the game and had no timeouts left.

Fans eyed the exits, reporters across the social media landscape wrote the game off as over and just about everyone in the stadium was certain that WSU had already won.

Everyone, including the Cougars.

"We got too complacent; kind of thought we won the game early," senior Justin Sagote said after the Cougars' 48-45 loss to Colorado State.

CSU linebacker Shaquil Barrett forced a fumble, recovered it himself, and the Rams promptly scored, tying the game on the two-point conversion by running a delayed handoff to Donnell Alexander known as the "Statue of Liberty" play.

"They had a lot of reasons to quit in this game," WSU coach Mike Leach said. "They could have quit at any point because they spent most of the game about 10 points, two touchdowns behind. They never did quit."

WSU quarterback Connor Halliday had fumbled on a quarterback keeper the previous play, but officials ruled that his knee touched the ground before the ball was loose after a lengthy review.

WSU's Teondray Caldwell fumbled the ensuing kickoff at the Cougars' 24-yard line and Jared Roberts' field goal sailed through the uprights with no time left on the clock, giving CSU its first lead, and the victory.

"We were thinking the whole time they've just got to run the ball a few times, kneel it," Sagote said. "Then there are two turnovers in 10 seconds that changed the whole game."

Prior to Halliday's run, the Cougars passed the ball on three consecutive plays, electing not to keep the ball on the ground and ignoring the stopping of the clock with an incomplete pass. On their previous drive, up 45-30 with about 6 minutes left, the Cougars passed three times and ran three times.

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