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 ...
In this edition of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee gives tips on how to identify two species – honey locust and bur oak – from just the markings and scarring on leafless twigs.
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 ...
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 ...
MASON CITY | North Iowa's ash and bur oak trees are at risk the most when it come to invasive species and diseases, according to Paul Tauke, a state forester with the Iowa Department of Natural ...
One of Nebraska's oldest trees, a bur oak estimated to be more than 380 years old, has died. The tree, known as the "Old Wolf Oak," is located at Ponca State Park in northeastern Nebraska along the ...
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