End of the Oglethorpe oak?

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)
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)

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…