Chevy Chase DC lost a neighborhood fixture on Monday: a gargantuan oak tree thought to be older than the United States. Located on a private property on the 2800 block of Northampton Street, Northwest ...

Did you know every state across America has an official state tree? There's one for the country too – in 2004, Congress signed a bill declaring the oak tree as the national tree. In a 2001 vote hosted ...

Few average Joes can correctly identify every species of oak growing in North America. That’s the kind of Final Jeopardy-level knowledge typically reserved for foresters, wildlife biologists, and very ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Oak galls are popping up everywhere this fall! They're the tiny, fuzzy yellow or brown balls on oak leaves and branches. You could spot one or two, then dozens around the same ...

A binational collaborative project is exploring environmental factors that affect the northward expansion of oak wilt, a fatal tree disease spread by sap beetles. Researchers from Michigan ...

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 ...