Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Throughout the week, neighbors passed by around the massive tree, admiring its size and history. Some took pieces from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monroe County is already preparing for America250. The country turn 250-years-old on July 4. An early local observance took place ...

The Bur Oak, a landmark at the Lincoln Park Zoo, was about 300 years old. Before it was chopped down, people lined up to say goodbye. Cuttings from the tree are being nurtured into saplings. Good ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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, ...

The Iowa State Fairgrounds celebrated America's 250th birthday and Arbor Day by planting a Bur Oak tree Friday morning. Iowa 4-H and Future Farmers of America students joined state leaders to plant ...

Monroe County is already preparing for America250. The country turn 250-years-old on July 4. An early local observance took place April 24, Arbor Day. A 250-year-old Burr Oak tree received its second ...