"The Quiet Giant," Maryland's massive, 460-year-old Wye Oak tree, lies today in a huge warehouse on the Eastern Shore, behind a door that creaks when it opens, awaiting its final resting place. For ...
In a small state park in Talbot County on Maryland's Eastern Shore, yellow police tape surrounds a jagged, 10-foot-high tree stump while a park ranger monitors the site from his car a few feet away.
Robert Siegel speaks with forester Stark McLaughlin, a forester with the Maryland Forest Service, about the falling of the Wye Oak tree in a thunderstorm last night. The 460-year-old tree, which grew ...