It was installed about five years ago to help fortify the more than 400-year-old tree. At nearly 100 feet tall, it is one of the largest and oldest Oregon white oaks in the state — if not the ...

Quoting Homer Davenport, Gene shared: “The old oak…was a stately giant, and the early settlers of Silverton looked a fitting people to group themselves under it and around it, and, as I have ...

Pastels remind me of the 400-year-old oak growing at the Oregon Garden in Silverton.

In Oregon, an estimated 25% of historic oak habitat has survived and only 1% of native prairies due to clearing for commercial tree plantations, pasture or development.