red juniper การใช้
- Before ranchers and farmers began altering the landscape, the area was once part of a vast red juniper ( red cedar ), and mesquite.
- There is predominance of oak; in cooler areas one can find Downy Oaks and French oaks, while in the warmer parts, the red juniper.
- At elevations between there is sub-montane vegetation, mainly characterized by mixed forests of oak and turkey oak, maple and hornbeam; shrubs include dog rose and red juniper.
- Joseph Tuttle, a local innkeeper, who had opened a luxurious hotel at what is today the intersection of Savin Hill Avenue and Tuttle Street, invented the new title " Savin Hill " in 1819, which he named after the red juniper trees ( Savin trees ) that grew abundantly in the area.