COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Thirty years ago, Bill Spradley was a freshman at the University of Missouri and became one of countless mid-Missourians to fall in love with the massive bur oak tree, the state's ...

The tree was named a Champion Bur Oak Tree by DNR Forester Christopher Tall in 2022. The Viroqua City Council approved the designation May 10, 2022. Commission members Karen Innis, ...

CODY — Standing proudly in a Cody neighborhood is Wyoming’s largest bur oak tree, which rises taller than the three-story gray wood-frame house that has been its neighbor for a ...

Mahan explained that all those numbers combine for a point total of 397, making the tree the state champion bur oak and third largest statewide for all types of oak trees.

CHARLESTON, Ill. (AP) -- The huge bur oak tree on the east side of Eastern Illinois University's Old Main building is kind of like the university's alumni, Andy Methven thinks, 210-year-old bur ...

CHARLESTON — Willow Creek Farms owner Lori Douglas is mourning the loss of her workshop and the tree that toppled on top of it Monday afternoon.

Students and faculty in the Campus Honors Environmental Research Program, an urban ecology course offered through the Pierre Laclede Honors College at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, have ...

None of the young Lincoln Park bur oak trees are old enough yet to be planted in the ground, but more than 20 are being nurtured at the Arboretum and the zoo, according to Maureen Leahy, the zoo ...

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 ...