These trees were used as a food sources for the Kalapuya people in the Willamette Valley. They were open-grown individual trees due to their fire land management practices. You can recognize them from a distance by the classic tree shape of their canopy in an open field, and up close by their iconic leaf shape and oak galls.

On this episode of the Tree Thinking Podcast we talk about a local legend who’s native range extends from southern California to British Columba, and personal is one of my favorite trees, (Quercus garryana) The Oregon white oak.

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