![]() ![]() ![]() “It was kind of a joke with the team, ‘What’s the most common question you’re getting?’ and it’s people are asking, ‘Where’s the oak tree?’” she said. Quint said there was a surge in people flocking to pay their respects following the zoo’s announcement last fall of the tree’s age, state of decline and imminent removal. Read More: Lincoln Park Zoo’s Oldest Resident Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight for About 300 Years. While the bur oak spent the majority of its years living in anonymity, in recent months it gained a kind of celebrity status, matched only by the zoo’s baby lions. “We’re here to cultivate and to make these beautiful gardens, and to have to see something reach its natural end of life has been difficult.” “It’s very bittersweet because we obviously don’t want the tree to go,” said Katrina Quint, director of horticulture at the zoo. ![]()
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