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Will Rogers State Historic Park, which has been closed since the Palisades fire ripped through it 10 months ago, will reopen to the public on Saturday, providing a sprawling green oasis in the devastated community.

Around the tree's vast trunk and its dozen offshoots -- some named after his family members -- Abu Ali has cultivated a small oasis of calm.

For years, the famed park has served as an urban oasis for thousands of Westlake residents hemmed in by concrete and asphalt.

A short walk away is Legacy Park, an oasis of coastal prairies, bluffs and native woodlands.

The building was praised for its "generous" homes, terracotta-paved hallways with benches and plants, and a water feature that gives the building the "sense of a woodland oasis".