Also on Thursday, a decades-old oak tree was removed near Craven Quad and replaced with a swamp chestnut oak tree planted nearby ... With large cavities in its trunk, dying limbs and thinning leaves, ...

Some oaks, including chestnut, pin, bur, scarlet and swamp ... snow collected on the dead leaves protects buds from being eaten or destroyed. Thinking about oak trees brought to mind a nursery ...