A hollowed area and growth rings are visible on a cut section of a 250-year-old bur oak tree during its removal on Wednesday, ...

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 ...

A giant burr oak named Frank, dating to before the Revolutionary War, will be removed from Northeast Kansas City starting Tuesday, after a lightning strike and other maladies made it dangerous to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Long branches with notched bark littered the lawn of the Lincoln Park Zoo on Tuesday morning, a yawning sky visible where a thick canopy once stood. For almost three hours, crews from Fernandez Tree ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- If a tree could talk, this bur oak tree would tell you about the history of Chicago and its roots. The tree stands about 70 feet tall, and it's scheduled to be removed on Monday, so ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- People have been saying goodbye to a mighty oak tree at the Lincoln Park Zoo. It's stood the test of time, but is now at the end of its natural life according to the zoo's ...

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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 ...