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 ...

The Bur Oak, a landmark at the Lincoln Park Zoo, was about 300 years old. Before it was chopped down, people lined up to say goodbye. Cuttings from the tree are being nurtured into saplings. Good ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- It was there long, long before new lion cubs Pesho, Sidai, and Lomelok made their recent debut. It was there when Otto the Gorilla escaped in 1982 – and before he was the subject of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Throughout the week, neighbors passed by around the massive tree, admiring its size and history. Some took pieces from the ...

Plano's Parks and Recreation department cited a project to preserve the city's oldest tree as one of the department's top highlights of 2021. The quadricentennial (400 years) bur oak tree in Bob ...

A massive bur oak that had lived through hundreds of years of storms, droughts and human development finally succumbed to Friday’s powerful winds. The “famous” tree, off Harrodsburg Road near Military ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, the NPR station in Chicago. If you wanted to point to a tree that can handle climate change, you might start with the bur ...

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