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The Seward neighborhood bur oak, determined to be more than 300 years old, was declared dead and cut down in 2010.
A bur oak tree, which has potentially been at its site at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo since around 1800, is seen on Nov. 22, 2022. The centuries old bur oak is set to come down this spring due to ...
The centuries-old bur oak is set to come down this spring. It's the oldest of several great bur oak trees around which the zoo was built in 1868, a zoo horticulture director said.
A family strolls past the bur oak tree in Lincoln Park Zoo. At 250 to 300 years old, it is one of the oldest living things in the city. But it’s dying and is due to to be cut down Monday.
The quadricentennial (400 years) bur oak tree in Bob Woodruff Park South, 3840 E. Park Blvd., is documented as the oldest living tree found in Plano, according to the Texas Historic Tree Coalition.
The Bur Oak, a landmark at the Lincoln Park Zoo, was about 300 years old. Before it was chopped down, people lined up to say goodbye. Cuttings from the tree are being nurtured into saplings.
COLUMBIA, Mo.- The McBaine Bur Oak tree outside of Columbia, Mo. caught on fire this morning. It is the oldest Bur Oak tree in the state and is estimated to be about 350-400 years old. Fire crews ...
WAVERLY — The city of Waverly is figuring out how to say goodbye to its oldest resident. Although it has never moved from the bank of the Cedar River, the bur oak tree outside Waverly’s Civic ...
Katrina Quint, Lincoln Park Zoo’s director of horticulture, with the nearly 300-year-old bur oak on Friday. ‘It’s going to very different without it standing there for the grounds,’ Quint ...
Plano's quadricentennial bur oak tree in Bob Woodruff Park South is 400 years old. The tree has received special treatment to help keep it thriving.
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 ...
Iowa's oldest oak tree is clinging to life following last month's EF-4 tornado that hit Madison County. The bur oak, which stands in Pammel State Park, sprouted in 1634, according to the Iowa ...