Local landscape painter Kathy O’Leary will exhibit her paintings of oak trees at Mendenhall’s Studio D2 in Eureka in November. The show will highlight a subject matter O’Leary has studied extensively ...

Oak trees have been around for more than 50 million years, with individual trees easily living 1,000 years. One of the oldest oak trees in the U.S. is believed to be at least 2,624 years old. The ...

A drenched yard doesn't have to mean defeat. One oak species thrives in soggy soil, turning rain-soaked land into a lush ...

Around the time that many of today’s college students were born, many people in Baldwin and beyond wondered about the fate of another injured oak. Officially, it was Inspiration Oak, but to many 20 ...

Under The Oak Tree is a web novel that takes fans back to an age of swords and sorcery. Starting as a web novel, the series has garnered popularity thanks to not just its character work, but some of ...

I had the delightful chance to tag along on a recent site walk led by Tin Smith of the Great Works Regional Land Trust (gwrlt.org). While this particular walk was on some land the trust is hoping to ...

Winter is the perfect time to prune oak trees. Oak trees are special for many reasons: they’re Iowa’s state tree, they’re important to our ecosystem and — they shouldn’t be pruned during the spring ...

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Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Willow oak (Quercus phellos) is a deciduous, common oak tree. A member of the ...

Waiting until the leaves drop in fall is a rule of thumb for pruning shade trees, mainly because you can see bare limbs better, and the job is less “messy” without leaves attached to the cut branches.

The mighty White Oak that seems to have been standing forever off Lees Hill Road in Harding Township has finally fallen. The landmark tree called the Warren Kinney Oak is believed to have taken root ...