ESCONDIDO, Calif. — An Escondido man needs your help to plant twenty thousand oak trees. In this Zevely Zone, I follow up on a dream that continues to grow. With the passing of President Jimmy Carter ...

Oak trees have been around for more than 50 million years, with individual trees easily living 1,000 years. One of the oldest oak trees in the U.S. is believed to be at least 2,624 years old. The ...

If there's a swampy corner in your backyard, the swamp chestnut oak (Quercus michauxii) is a tree worth considering. It is tall, does exceptionally well in drenched conditions, and will turn that ...

Winter is the perfect time to prune oak trees. Oak trees are special for many reasons: they’re Iowa’s state tree, they’re important to our ecosystem and — they shouldn’t be pruned during the spring ...

Climate change is causing trees to sprout earlier in spring. Nevertheless, some tree species are growing less. A study by the ...

Often when an oak tree gets planted in Northeast Florida, it is a live oak. Live oaks are native, long lived and very tolerant of urban conditions. While it is not a bad thing at all to plant a live ...

Oak trees around Minnesota have suffered from bouts of heavy precipitation and drought — conditions that make them more vulnerable to two-lined chestnut borer, a beetle that eats the inner bark of oak ...

Two arborists’ uncommon hobby takes them deep into the North Carolina woods to look for the state’s leafy giants.