Here’s why you should keep planting these keystone trees, according to local foresters.
What’s up with local oaks? That’s a question community forester Jacob Zielinski is often asked by NoVA residents. Many have seen large oaks dying and are wondering if it’s worth planting new young ones.
Zielinski, a certified arborist with the Virginia Department of Forestry, says recent oak deaths are due in part to the trees fulfilling their typical life span of 100 years. A 1920s timber boom led to land disturbances that first prompted many oaks to grow…