The Big Bur Oak Tree in Columbia MO has brought people together for decades. With the tree on Burr Oak Road showing signs of ...

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 ...

Standing before the Geneva City Council, June Maher held up an edited version of the city’s logo. Instead of one with a prominent tree in the middle, it contained a stump. She called the west suburb, ...

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 ...

CROMWELL -- It may not be a descendent of the Charter Oak after all, but a Geer Street resident fighting to Keep a giant oak tree says it is still rare and should be saved. Helen Zalewski is trying to ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- It was there long, long before new lion cubs Pesho, Sidai, and Lomelok made their recent debut. It was there when Otto the Gorilla escaped in 1982 – and before he was the subject of a ...

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Monroe County is already preparing for America250. The country turn 250-years-old on July 4. An early local observance took place April 24, Arbor Day. A 250-year-old Burr Oak tree received its second ...

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 ...