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 ...
Chicago Sun-Times

A tree older than Chicago is about to be cut down

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Chicago Sun-Times

Ailing centuries-old tree cut down at Lincoln Park Zoo

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Chicago Tribune

Possibly older than Chicago, centuries-old tree is cut down at Lincoln Park Zoo

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 ...
Iowa Public Radio

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 ...