‘Not an easy place to be a tree’: The hunt for Nebraska’s biggest trees  - Nebraska City News-Press

‘Not an easy place to be a tree’: The hunt for Nebraska’s biggest trees  - Nebraska City News-Press

By Natalia Alamdari, Flatwater Free Press To get to the tree, you have to drive down a dirt road lined by fields and pastures. You walk a quarter mile through an untouched prairie full of tall big bluestem, switchgrass and indiangrass, not yet fully green this early into spring. You crouch under barbed wire fences, step over small trickles of water and patches of mud.  The massive bur oak’s gnarled, furrowed branches stretch high into the clear …

‘Not an easy place to be a tree’: The hunt for Nebraska’s biggest trees  - Syracuse Journal-Democrat

By Natalia Alamdari, Flatwater Free Press To get to the tree, you have to drive down a dirt road lined by fields and pastures. You walk a quarter mile through an untouched prairie full of tall big bluestem, switchgrass and indiangrass, not yet fully green this early into spring. You crouch under barbed wire fences, step over small trickles of water and patches of mud.  The massive bur oak’s gnarled, furrowed branches stretch high into the clear …

‘Not an easy place to be a tree’: The hunt for Nebraska’s biggest trees

BURR — To get to the tree, you have to drive down a dirt road lined by fields and pastures. You walk a quarter mile through an untouched prairie full of tall big bluestem, switchgrass and indiangrass, not yet fully green this early into spring. You crouch under barbed wire fences, step over small trickles of water and patches of mud.  The massive bur oak’s gnarled, furrowed branches stretch high into the clear blue sky, towering over the grove o…