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One of Nebraska's oldest trees, a bur oak estimated to be more than 380 years old, has died. The tree, known as the "Old Wolf ...
Deer will browse unprotected sapling trees. Bur oak leaves have rounded lobes with deep sinuses, or indentations, at the bottom and shallow sinuses at the top, producing a distinctive guitar or ...
The Bur Oak, a landmark at the Lincoln Park Zoo, was about 300 years old. Before it was chopped down, people lined up to say goodbye. Cuttings from the tree are being nurtured into saplings.
Nearly 16 years after a scandal rocked a Chicago-area cemetery, a ceremony hosted by Friends of Burr Oak Cemetery unveiled a ...
A 300-year-old bur oak known as the "Queen of the Hill" split ... In dry summers, the city asks property owners to help water newly planted saplings. The death of mature trees in prolonged drought ...
Three types of native oak saplings - pin oak, red oak and bur oak - can be picked up at one of the agency's water reclamation plants, including: Egan Water Reclamation Plant, 550 S. Meacham Road ...
To get at the blaze mark, which the original surveyor made when the tree was a sapling of about 5 inches in diameter, the bur oak would have to be reduced to about chest level. “I have no ...
The new brick wall will stabilize the "Taco Oak," a hybrid white/bur oak named after the Taco ... the tree grew from a 10-foot sapling in 1989 to an oak so big, it overshadows the light poles ...
SIOUX CITY — There was once a large bur oak tree -- affectionately named Council ... According to legend, the tree -- which started as a sapling in the 1700s -- was the site for many meetings ...
A symbolic oak sapling planted by President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron has died, The Guardian reports. Macron gave the sapling, which represented the two countries’ ties ...
Good morning. I'm Leila Fadel. A dying oak tree older than Chicago's founding was recently cut down by the city. The bur oak was about 300 years old. It was a familiar landmark at the Lincoln Park ...