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‘Not an easy place to be a tree’: The hunt for Nebraska’s biggest trees

BURR, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) -To get to the tree, you have to drive down a dirt road lined by fields and pastures. You walk a quarter mile through an untouched prairie full of tall big bluestem, ...
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The 'King of the Great Plains' is dying. Drought is killing giant oak trees in the Midwest

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 ...
Purdue University

Intro to Trees of Indiana: Bur Oak

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...
Chicago Tribune

‘That tree has just witnessed so much history’: Lincoln Park Zoo’s massive bur oak, which is dying, slated for removal in spring

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 ...