Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Throughout the week, neighbors passed by around the massive tree, admiring its size and history. Some took pieces from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

As part of bicentennial celebration preparations for Paulding County’s Crane Township in August 2025, officials have been uncovering and documenting historical landmarks and events, including a ...

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 ...

A prominent bur oak tree at University of Michigan's Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum faces an uncertain future after a recent lightning strike left a nasty scar down the trunk. The ...

Monroe County is observing the USA's 250th anniversary with various local events. A 250-year-old Burr Oak tree, alive during the Revolutionary War, received a new historical plaque. Community projects ...

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 Oak," is located at Ponca State Park in northeastern Nebraska along the ...

Drought in the middle of the country has opened the door for pests and pathogens that can kill trees. That’s particularly true of a fungus that’s decimating bur oak trees, once known as the 'King of ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - 100 trees for 100 years. The Sioux City Garden Club is celebrating 100 years by giving away and planting 100 bur oak trees. If you are interested in having a bur oak tree planted ...