The bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) is a noble native tree. This oak has large (5- to 9-inch-long), dark-green leaves. The base fiddle-shaped leaves have deep, rounded sinuses. The acorns are most ...

A massive bur oak that had lived through hundreds of years of storms, droughts and human development finally succumbed to Friday’s powerful winds. The “famous” tree, off Harrodsburg Road near Military ...

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

Dead trees line the Salt Creek and Platte River near Mahoney State Park in June 2025. Horticulturists with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission were stumped when they started seeing significant ...

MCBAINE - The Big Bur Oak Tree is now considered a Boone County Historical Site, making it the only tree in the county to hold that designation. "My father is on the historical committee for the ...

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Long branches with notched bark littered the lawn of the Lincoln Park Zoo on Tuesday morning, a yawning sky visible where a thick canopy once stood. For almost three hours, crews from Fernandez Tree ...

Plano's Parks and Recreation department cited a project to preserve the city's oldest tree as one of the department's top highlights of 2021. The quadricentennial (400 years) bur oak tree in Bob ...

For the next few months, Katrina Quint has one request for visitors to the Lincoln Park Zoo: Look up. Across from the white-cheeked gibbon enclosure sits a great, sprawling bur oak tree, about 45 feet ...