Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Many developers and homeowners prefer to plant live oak trees, but other oak species do not get as large. Oaks are great because they are our ...

The trees scrub carbon from the atmosphere both ... They pretty much concurred. The coastal live oak, Quercus virginiana, led everyone’s list because it supports the most species and has ...

But thankfully, the winter precipitation that is unusual for the Gulf Coast likely did not affect New Orleans' plants and wildlife, experts say, from stately live oak trees to pesky mosquitoes.

I have heard from a few residents who live in subdivisions where they are beginning to remove all the large trees (oaks, magnolia, etc.) because they are causing damage to the sidewalks or filling ...