Whatever else they might have done on the Saturday morning of a holiday weekend, a crew of volunteers arrived July 2 at the field farmed by Mark Smith on Kelly Road in Burr Oak. They spanned all ages ...

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 ...

The bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) is a noble native tree. This oak has large (5- to 9-inch-long), dark-green leaves. The base fiddle-shaped leaves have deep, rounded sinuses. The acorns are most ...

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 ...

A representative of the cemetery's president and CEO said Burr Oak's owners acted as fast as they could once they were told about a worker discovering a handful of bones. Left unanswered is how the ...

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 ...

The champion bur oak in the McBaine River Bottoms is healing after it was struck by lightning about eight months ago. “It will live longer than we will,” John Sam Williamson, owner of the farm where ...