See how a 250-year-old tree was dismantled in Kansas City neighborhood

A hollowed area and growth rings are visible on a cut section of a 250-year-old bur oak tree during its removal on Wednesday, ...
KSHB 41 Kansas City

Famous 250-year-old Kansas City tree 'Frank' officially being removed Wednesday

A beloved 250-year-old tree in Kansas City is set to be removed after succumbing to root fungus, marking the end of an era ...
KCUR

Kansas City’s Liberty Tree is coming down. The giant oak is older than the United States

A giant burr oak named Frank, dating to before the Revolutionary War, will be removed from Northeast Kansas City starting ...

Crews remove Frank the 250-year-old bur oak in Kansas City

Frank, a 250-year-old bur oak in Kansas City’s Northeast neighborhood, is carefully dismantled by arborists after disease ...
CBS News

Historic bur oak tree cut down at Lincoln Park Zoo

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 ...
Iowa Public Radio

The 'King of the Great Plains' is dying. Drought is killing giant oak trees in the Midwest

Dead trees line the Salt Creek and Platte River near Mahoney State Park in June 2025. Horticulturists with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission were stumped when they started seeing significant ...
AOL

‘Famous’ 300-year-old bur oak was saved from development. Windstorm knocked it down.

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 ...