The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Throughout the week, neighbors passed by around the massive tree, admiring its size and history. Some took pieces from the ...

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 ...

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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A massive bur oak that had lived through hundreds of years of storms, droughts and human development finally succumbed to Friday’s powerful winds. The “famous” tree, off Harrodsburg Road near Military ...

Dead trees line the Salt Creek and Platte River near Mahoney State Park in June 2025. Horticulturists with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission were stumped when they started seeing significant ...

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, ...

A giant bur oak estimated at more than 400 years old and regarded as the oldest tree in North Texas collapsed Oct. 25 during a heavy rain storm. The Quadricentennial Bur Oak, located in Bob Woodruff ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- If a tree could talk, this bur oak tree would tell you about the history of Chicago and its roots. The tree stands about 70 feet tall, and it's scheduled to be removed on Monday, so ...