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The remains of the Wye Oak supporting its clone. The Wye Oak was the largest white oak tree in the United States and the State Tree of Maryland from 1941 until its demise in 2002. [2] Wye Oak State Park preserves the site where the revered tree stood for more than 400 years in the town of Wye Mills, Talbot County, Maryland. [2]
White oak may live 200 to 300 years, with some even older specimens known. The Wye Oak in Wye Mills, Maryland was estimated to be over 450 years old when it finally fell in a thunderstorm in 2002. [9] Another noted white oak was the Basking Ridge white oak in New Jersey, estimated to have been over 600 years old when it died in 2016. The tree ...
Pages in category "Individual trees in Maryland" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Wye Oak This page was last ...
Wye Mills is the home of the Wye Mill which has been in nearly continuous operation since 1682. Today, it houses a museum in addition to its mill operations. [2] [3]The Wye Oak (Maryland's honorary state tree, which was destroyed on June 6, 2002, by a severe thunderstorm), was located in Wye Mills.
It is located near the site of the annual Maryland Renaissance Festival in the heart of Anne Arundel County. The park is maintained by the Anne Arundel County Department of Recreation and Parks. Additional work – such as planting native plants and maintaining a nature trail – is provided by a group of volunteers called the General's Highway ...
Bole of a massive tulip poplar in Belt Woods Deadfall in Belt Woods. Belt Woods is a nature reserve in Prince George's County, Maryland, U.S., containing the "South Woods", a 43-acre (170,000 m 2) woodland which constitutes one of the last stands of old growth hardwood forest on the Atlantic coastal plain.
This list of Maryland state parks includes the state parks and state battlefields listed in the Maryland Department of Natural Resources's current acreage report. [1] Generally, the Maryland Park Service, a unit of and under the authority of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR), is the governing body for these parks, although some ...
Since the felling of the Wye Oak in June 2002 and Flora's Oak in June 2008, there is an opening for the Maryland State Tree. Although the Travilah Oak is not the oldest or largest White Oak in Maryland, it is one of the healthiest making it a good long term candidate. [5]