2. THE CONDITION OF THE TREE: Large, old water oak trees commonly have rotten trunks, even though there may be no outward ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A historic live oak tree was cut down in Gonzales Thursday night, and residents are outraged. All that’s left of the tree is a stump and a picture of the Lorax.

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone ... One of the country’s more whimsical-looking trees, the live oak is also one of the strongest. Indeed, it has saved the lives of ...

Over the decades, the oak had lived with the family at three different addresses in town, growing from seedling to sapling to full-grown tree. “It’s our family tree,” said Johnson Wolfe.