Black oak grows 50-60 feet tall and wide and is hardy in Zones 3-9. While it grows slower than the similar-looking red oak (Quercus rubra), it is more drought tolerant. I’ve even seen it growing ...

The city approved an urban forest plan with a big goal to plant 25,000 trees a year to nearly double the city's tree canopy ...

Envision the canopy as the cup, the trunk as the stem, and the wide, broad base as a root zone that rarely descends more than 12 to 20 inches into the soil. Live oak or Quercus virginian. Matt Turner ...

A wide variety of oak trees make up a significant amount of vegetation in the Cross Timbers Region and, ... The city’s goal is to increase overall tree canopy to 30% of the city by 2050, ...

The white oak roots themselves can go twice as wide as the tree is tall, but the root ball rarely gets very deep, he said. ... "We know our tree canopy took a significant hit, ...

On a foggy Saturday morning, Saturday, March 1, in Bungalow Heaven’s McDonald Park, a historic coast live oak tree, whose branches sprawl across the park’s east side, attracted a passionate ...

“If someone suspects oak wilt, look for multiple leaves that died from the margins in and for rapid canopy death. If the symptoms line up, send a sample into a plant pathology lab.” ...

For unauthorized removals of post oak or blackjack oak trees, offenders will face a $720 fine per diameter inch or $18 per canopy square foot, replacing the previous $600 per inch or $15 per ...

Jenkins has long marveled at her tree’s sprawling canopy, grateful for the shade it provided from the baking Florida sun. The oak is 70 years old, according to city estimates.