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 ...

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, ...