In 1823, an acorn from an Overcup Oak tree sent up a shoot at what is now the corner of Elden and Center Streets in the Town of Herndon. In Washington, D.C., James Monroe, the 5th President of the ...

The last few times I’ve been to meetings at 401 City Ave. (near St. Asaph’s and Monument roads in Bala Cynwyd) I found myself parking just a little farther away from the building just so I could be ...

AUBURN, Alabama -- Auburn University broke ground this week on a project to remove contaminated soil from Toomer's Corner and replace the university's iconic oak trees that were poisoned by a rival ...

This spring, Brett Dupree went to the McDowell Nature Preserve in southwest Charlotte in search of an overcup oak tree, one of Charlotte’s “treasure trees.” “Treasure trees” was a program started in ...

Meet overcup oak, a species found on swampy ground and soils in southwestern Indiana. It is identifiable by its deeply sinused alternately arranged leaves as well as its acorns, which have a cap which ...

MOUNT VERNON, Ind. (AP) — Wildlife officials are culling beavers and demolishing their dams in a swampland nature preserve in southwestern Indiana to protect a species of oak tree rarely found in the ...

Two trucks, one hauling a flatbed trailer with a dozen or so balled-and-burlapped trees, pull up next to a small, mostly barren triangle of land in Northwest Washington. Five men in chartreuse shirts ...

AUBURN, Alabama -- Auburn University began work this week on a project to remove contaminated soil from Toomer's Corner and replace the university's poisoned oak trees. Until their removal a year ago, ...