The more than 200-year-old Oak Tree on Howard Mills’s property towers above the house. Photo credit: Stephen Milligan – the Walton Tribune.
Loganville resident Howard Mills knew the oak tree in his back yard had been there a long time. He just didn’t know how long, until he reached out to the Georgia Forestry Commission to see if his tree qualified as one of the state’s Champion Trees.
The Commission recognizes the state’s largest and oldest trees in an official database of what it designates as Champion Trees, trees that have earned the title through height, width and longevity…