As they kick off celebrations marking the Sioux City Garden Club's upcoming 100th anniversary, members decided what better ...

St. Louis Park awarded the 2025 M.V.Tree title to a bur oak, celebrated for its significance to the local community.

WAVERLY — A Waverly icon older than the city itself came down this weekend. Crews began cutting down the ailing bur oak tree outside City Hall on Friday afternoon. The tree, estimated to be about 217 ...

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 ...

Drought in the middle of the country has opened the door for pests and pathogens that can kill trees. That’s particularly true of a fungus that’s decimating bur oak trees, once known as the ‘King of ...

PONCA, Neb. — One of the oldest bur oak trees in the state of Nebraska, which predated the signing of the Declaration of Independence by more than a century, has died following years of extreme ...

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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 ...

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, ...

CHARLESTON, Ill. (AP) -- The huge bur oak tree on the east side of Eastern Illinois University's Old Main building is kind of like the university's alumni, Andy Methven thinks, because both are ...

The Lincoln Parks and Recreation Department is again working to preserve native bur oak trees in Wilderness Park this winter. Crews will begin working next week in the area of First Street and ...