A group of big tree hunters want to know a lot about a black oak tree near Willow Street. Was this big tree a sapling when the Herr House was built nearby in 1719? Why was it spared as the surrounding ...

Community members gathered at Pebble Hill Plantation on Feb. 20 in observance of Arbor Day, honoring the city’s commitment to caring, growing, and preserving trees in the community and celebrating the ...

Q: I am in a panic trying to figure out how to save a big oak tree in my yard. I believe it is a burr oak. Two years ago, I did some dirt work in the yard around the tree and increased the dirt level ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

A proactive approach. The director of Parks and Parkways in New Orleans said extreme heat and drought conditions are playing a role in the condition of live oak trees and other trees across the ...

This is the little story I wrote about my grandfather Antonio Puch and his tale of the Oak Tree. Grandpa immigrated from Spain in the early 1900s and eventually chose the Durham area to farm. We lived ...

Majestic oak trees have been capturing attention long before travelers on the Oregon Trail stopped their wagons and set up their new life. Indigenous people nurtured oaks for edible acorns, and ...