County’s namesake tree in danger, headed for ‘oblivion’
Joe Conti, a retired Oglethorpe County High School biology teacher, oversaw the Environmental Awareness Club’s planting of the school’s Oglethorpe oak in 2005 (PHOTO/ERIN KENNEY)
(PHOTO/ERIN KENNEY)
The Oglethorpe oak in front of the county courthouse in Lexington is a stately example of the threatened species. (PHOTO/ERIN KENNEY)
(PHOTO/ERIN KENNEY)
(PHOTO/ERIN KENNEY)
(PHOTO/ERIN KENNEY)
The ecological sun is setting on the Oglethorpe oak.
This is how Kim Coder, a professor of tree biology at the University of Georgia and president of the International Society of Arboricult…
