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	Wye Oak State Park
		Wye Oak State Park consists of 29 acres, much of which protects the stream valley behind the park from development.
		The Wye Oak, Maryland's State Tree and the largest White Oak in the United States, toppled June 6, 2002 during a thunderstorm in the village of Wye in Talbot County on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
		The Wye Oak was one of Maryland's greatest living symbols and was older than the State itself.
	www.dnr.state.md.us /publiclands/eastern/wyeoak.html (734 words)

	The Maryland Wye Oak
		The fate of the Wye Oak on the Eastern Shore of Maryland was inevitable due to its venerable age and gradual decline.
		The Wye Oak predated the European settlement of Maryland's Eastern Shore.
		The Maryland state tree is the white oak and the Wye Oak was the honorary state tree.
	www.nal.usda.gov /speccoll/images1/wye.html (903 words)

	Wye Oak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Wye Oak was the honorary state tree of Maryland, and the largest white oak tree in the United States.
		Located in the town of Wye, in Talbot County, Maryland, the Wye Oak was believed to be over 460 years old at the time of its destruction during a thunderstorm on June 6, 2002, and measured 382 feet in circumference, 96 feet in height, with a crown spread of 119 feet.
		The Wye Oak first drew the attention of the public in 1909, when Fred W. Besley, the first Maryland State Forester, made the first official measurement of the tree.
	grupos.xasa.us /wiki/en/wikipedia/w/wy/wye_oak.html (305 words)

	WYE OAK TREE
		Maryland's oldest citizen, the majestic, 460-year-old Wye Oak, was toppled yesterday by a violent thunderstorm on the Eastern Shore, part of a barrage of bad weather that raked the state with torrential rains, high winds and as many as three tornadoes.
		State officials said they were unsure whether the Wye Oak was struck by lightning, succumbed to high winds or both as the band of severe storms raced across Kent Island and through tiny Wye Mills.
		The Wye Oak was one of the last surviving members of the original crop of champion trees identified in 1940, according to American Forests, a conservation group.
	www.oglefamilyofmarylandandalliedfamilies.com /wye_oak_tree.htm (2363 words)

	The Maryland Wye Oak
		From 1939 it was the centerpiece of the Wye Oak State Park, four acres which protected the tree's nearly half acre spread.
		The oldest white oak in the United States stood for more than 450 years near Easton, MD. In the village of Wye Mills the oak was a noted landmark in the 1800's, but not one that was given any particular protection.
		It was in private hands from an initial land grant in 1665 until 1939 when recognition of the unique status of the tree led the State of Maryland to purchase the few acres around it to create the Wye Oak State Park.
	www.nalusda.gov /speccoll/images1/wye.html (903 words)

	Oak Trees Stories and Pictures
		WYE MILLS - The morning after the Wye Oak crashed to the ground, workers continued clean-up efforts and a stream of visitors came to say goodbye to the 460-year-old tree.
		The largest white oak in the nation, the Wye Oak stood 104 feet tall with a circumference of 36 feet.
		In April, two Wye Oak clones were planted on the grounds of Mount Vernon in Virginia as part of a 10-year reforestation project to save George Washington's forests.
	www.arcytech.org /java/population/oak_stories.html (1304 words)

	Oak Tree Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The oak tree is a member of the Beech family and its scientific name is Quercus or Lithocarpus.
		Oak trees in Marin County (which is north of San Francisco) are dying at a rate that has reached epidemic proportions, and scientists still don't know the cause of this2,3.
		Oaks, which typically take a year or so to die from infections, have been reported to die in just two to three weeks.
	www.oakplus.com /Oak_Tree_Facts.htm (1695 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Mighty Wye Oak's Fall Prompts Efforts to Preserve
		Since the mighty oak was toppled during a June 6 thunderstorm, state officials and others interested in the tree are working on various ways to preserve what was once one of the largest white oak trees in the United States.
		Maryland proclaimed Wye Oak its symbolic state tree in 1941, and many residents feel a strong connection to it.
		The state plans to maintain the 27-acre Wye Oak State Park, which includes the stump and an old one-room schoolhouse, and possibly create a memorial to the tree, state officials said.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A47974-2002Jun26?language=printer (1054 words)

	In Focus - Wye Oak & Commemoration
		In addition to the desk for Governor’s office and benches for Wye Oak State Park, pieces will be distributed to legislative branches, local governments and local churches for fashioning of seals or other appropriate uses.
		New life is being brought to the Wye Oak.
		The tree that was symbolically planted on November 20, 2003 is a cloned tree from the original Wye Oak.
	www.dnr.state.md.us /dnrnews/infocus/wye_oak.asp (337 words)

	Maryland Newsline - Health
		In a fashion befitting Shel Silverstein's giving tree, the oak's 2-year-old grandkids (grown from the acorns of the seedlings grown from the acorns of the original tree) are available through the John S. Ayton Tree Nursery in Preston.
		The tree was supposedly a common horse hitch and meeting area for early settlers in Eastern Maryland, though the oak predated their arrival.
		Corbett's company, in Florida, used to sell the offspring of the Wye Oak before it died, and it continues to sell the relatives of other historic trees.
	www.newsline.umd.edu /health/wyeoak111904.htm (628 words)

	MDGenWeb: The Wye Oak
		The Wye Oak, as it was known, had stood in that spot on Route 662 in Wye Mills for over 500 years, according to estimates.
		We at MDGenWeb are heartened by the knowledge that many offspring of the old Wye Oak survive still - at least 2 in each state, and are hopeful that the roots may sprout new growth at the site of the great tree.
		The Ruins of the Wye Oak Tree, shown in August of 2002.
	www.mdgenweb.org /wyeoak.htm (237 words)

	Bay Weekly: Dock of the Bay
		For the Wye oak was also the largest white oak, Quercus alba, in the states and thus the Grand Champion White Oak.
		The Wye oak was cloned using a modified grafting method because cuttings of oak trees do not root readily and tissue culture methods have not been successful with oak species.
		Today’s Wye oak buds are grafted onto seedlings of the Wye oak.
	www.cwp.org /Community_Watersheds/BayWeekly_rainbarrels.htm (2272 words)

	The Quiet Giant, The Wye Oak
		Maryland's Wye Oak was long recognized as the largest white oak tree in the nation.
		The Wye Oak was on a 2 1/2 acre parcel purchased by Johannes Arants.
		The Wye Oak held the title of largest white oak in the United States since the American Forestry Association began its contest in 1940.
	www.dnr.state.md.us /forests/trees/giant.html (928 words)

	Planet Ark : Storm fells oldest US white oak after 460 years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		WYE MILLS, Md. - An oak tree that was the living symbol of Maryland, standing through gale and drought since before Europeans inhabited the area, has been felled by a thunderstorm, officials said last week.
		The Wye Oak's girth was 31 feet, 10 inches (9.7 meters) and it was 96 feet (29.2 meters) high, Bivens said.
		At least one of the oak's descendants is in the Wye Oak park, and two were planted at Mt. Vernon, the Virginia home of America's first president, George Washington.
	www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/16345/story.htm (497 words)

	Wildernet - Wye Oak State Park
		As a protective site for the great Wye Oak, this four-acre state park honors the champion of all white oaks (Quercus alba) in the United States.
		Attractions - Next to the Wye Oak is a small brick structure which has been furnished and restored to its status as a colonial period one-room schoolhouse.
		Location - Wye Oak State Park is located on the Eastern Shore in Talbot County on MD RT.
	www.wildernet.com /pages/area.cfm?areaID=MDSPWO&CU_ID=1 (390 words)

	Interesting Facts about Oak Trees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When the oak trees shed their leaves during the autumn, they end up covering (and thus hiding) most of the acorns.
		Another common cause of oak tree deaths is beetles, fungi, and bad weather.
		Oak trees in Marin County (which is north of San Francisco) are dying at a rate that has reached epidemic proportions, and scientists still don't know the cause of this
	www.arcytech.org /java/population/facts_oaks.html (1786 words)

	Quaest.io on Wye Oak
		The Wye Oak first drew the attention of the public in 1909, when Fred W.
		In 1939, the Maryland General Assembly purchased the tree and almost 30 acres (121,000 m²) surrounding it and established the Wye Oak State Park.
		Frank Gouin, Professor Emeritus of Horticulture at the University of Maryland, College Park, impressed both by the age and size of the tree, as well as its unusual resistance to oak wilt fungus and the gypsy moth, led a successful effort to clone the Wye Oak.
	www.quaest.io /?title=wye-oak (256 words)

	The Wye Oak
		The Wye Oak, which had stood watch over a woodland trail used by the original north Americans, colonial expansion and modern day changes, was buffeted by heavy summer winds as thunderstorms and lightening lashed the area.
		The thunder and lighting of old led the ancient Greeks to consecrate the oaks to Zeus; the Norse held the oak as a sacred tree powerful and withstanding of the storms.
		As someone who spent nearly 30 years caring for the Wye Oak, I was impressed and moved by the thousands of visitors to the site in the aftermath of the storm.
	www.dnr.state.md.us /naturalresource/fall2002/wyeoak.html (1026 words)

	Hobart and William Smith Colleges :: News Releases
		There was a moment of pin-drop silence when hands lifted the fl sheet yesterday morning to unveil the desk built for the governor of Maryland from the branches of a fallen Wye Oak.
		The Wye Oak desk, built from the upper reaches of a tree believed to be about 460 years old, will sit in the governor's office in Annapolis.
		After the storm, bundles of Wye Oak wood were cut and handed out to artists and craftspeople across the state, to be carved into gavels and pins and dolls and church crosses.
	www.hws.edu /alumni/alumnews/showwebclip.asp?webclipid=1830 (783 words)

	Bay Weekly: Letters to the Editor
		Our source on Wye oaks is Dr. Francis Gouin — horticulturist and professor emeritus, University of Maryland —; who propagated clones of the historic tree.
		The Wye Oak stopped producing acorns in 2000 and was blown over by a storm on June 6, 2002.
		Maryland Department of Natural Resources is in the process of establishing an orchard from the Wye oak clones that Gouin propagated by grafting, and seedlings of the Wye oak should become available in about 10 years.
	www.bayweekly.com /year03/issuexi22/lettersxi22.html (486 words)

	Wye Oak - Own a Piece of History
		Proceeds from the Wye Oak leaves will be used to create the Wye Oak exhibit and pavilion.
		Wye Oak State Park will receive two benches.
		The Community of Wye Mills will receive a piece suitable to fashion a community seal and the Wye Mills United Methodist Church and the Old Wye Parish, both churches in Wye Mills, are to receive lumber for crosses.
	www.dnr.md.gov /wyeoak (401 words)

	The Charter Oak: State Tree of Connecticut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Their Charter Oak is one of the most revered symbols of liberty in the state.
		This hiding place was a hole in a mighty oak tree, which afterward became known as the Charter Oak.
		Also, lumber from the white oak was used to build the most famous American battleship of the Revolutionary War, the U.S.S. Constitution.
	www.roadescape.com /chartoak.html (524 words)

	American Forests: News
		Even as the remains of the Wye Oak are being carved into a gubernatorial desk, commemorative crab mallets and various works of art, a tree in southern Virginia was named this week to succeed the fallen Maryland landmark as the biggest white oak in the nation.
		The Wye Oak was 96 feet tall and nearly 32 feet in girth before it was toppled June 6, 2002, by a fierce thunderstorm.
		This year's runner-up white oak was a 93-foot-tall tree in Athens County, Ohio, with 398 points, according to Karen Fedor, a vice president of Global Releaf, the parent organization of American Forest.
	www.americanforests.org /news/display.php?id=132 (738 words)

	Wye Oak Merchandise Available On DNR Website In Time For Holiday Giving (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Proceeds from the sale of Wye Oak leaves will be used to create the Wye Oak exhibit and pavilion to cover the bole when it is returned to the park.
		The leaves measure between 3 inches and 5 inches and are certified as Wye Oak.
		The Wye Oak, Maryland's State Tree, was a great symbol of our heritage for more than 450 years until it was felled by a storm on June 6, 2002.
	dnr.maryland.gov /dnrnews/pressrelease2003/121203.html (271 words)

	Bay Weekly: Burton on the Bay
		Under the spreading Wye Oak, not just the smithy but everyone stood, picnicked, looked up in awe, appreciation and pride, snapped photos, took a leaf to be pressed in a book or maybe slipped an acorn in a pocket in hopes they, too, would have a magnificent white oak back home one day.
		Okay, I admit that not everyone stood under the glorious Wye Oak over at Wye Mills on the mid Eastern Shore — though an observer would have thought so by the reaction of the citizenry the past week.
		Standing straight and reaching toward the heavens on the east side of the house stands a white oak in robust health, and the birdhouse affixed to her mainstem about 12 feet from the ground is the home of a pair of song sparrows.
	www.bayweekly.com /year02/issueX24/burtonX24.html (1171 words)

	Wye Mills - American Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Entering the Wye Grist Mill (built about 1670) where wheat and corn still are ground between stones, one steps into the early 19th century when the milling industry flourished on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
		Wye Mills got its name from the two grist mills and one sawmill originally located at this crossroads between Talbot and Queen Anne’s counties.
		Today, Wye Grist Mill is both the oldest surviving frame grist mill on the Eastern Shore and Maryland’s oldest commercial structure in continuous use.
	www.americanprofile.com /article/317.html (744 words)

	Big trees not necessarily old-timers
		McLaughlin said he examined a limb that fell off the Wye Oak in 1984 and dated it to 264 years, far short of the 462-year official age.
		Really ancient trees like the Wye Oak tend to have begun life as wild seedlings; later trees were more likely to have been planted by someone in a specific location.
		The Wye Oak had a large cavity at the base of the trunk, but McLaughlin is planning to count the rings of the intact section later this month once adequate lighting is brought to the warehouse storing the trunk.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/07/17/HO38764.DTL (936 words)

	Seal made from Wye Oak unveiled - News - The Star Democrat - The Star Democrat
		She said the council was returning to the courthouse after a 20-month absence and would start the annual budget process later in the day.
		The Wye Oak, in the Wye Oak State Park in Wye Mills, was the largest, living white oak in the nation before a violent thunderstorm felled it in June 2002.
		The Wye Oak was a very strong symbol of the natural beauty of Talbot County, she said.
	www.stardem.com /article.asp?paper=1&cat=1&article=2608 (339 words)

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