Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images There’s a reason it’s called the Mighty Oak: Oak trees are stately trees that can live for hundreds (yes, hundreds!) ...

Old oak in the Sababurg primeval forest: formerly used as a pasture tree for feeding livestock in the forest, today a tree that is a living habitat offering many species a chance of survival.

Waiting until the leaves drop in fall is a rule of thumb for pruning shade trees, mainly because you can see bare limbs better, and the job is less “messy” without leaves attached to the cut branches.

For three generations a family paid to save an oak tree. Then they discovered it was on their own land. For three generations ...