Saving open-grown oaks, those that were once part of a savanna ecosystem, is one place where urban outdoors residents can be involved in saving a part of outdoors history. Some of these open-grown oaks still remain, even in urban settings, but crowding from our own planting and building are turning them into forest trees, or firewood. These remaining trees, like the huge swamp white oak along Linden Drive on UW-Madison?s west campus, is a beautiful example of an open-grown tree. Its lower limbs survive today, some nearly touching the ground.
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