The Baranoff Oak (Safety Harbor)
The Baranoff Oak is reportedly the oldest living Live Oak Tree in Pinellas County. This video was created to show all of the work that the Arborists and all of the volunteers did to help save this beautiful land mark a year ago.
Thank you to the Citizens of Safety Harbor.
Scientific Name: Quercus virginiana
Age: Approx 350yrs old
Height: 59 Feet
Diameter: 81”
Location: Safety Harbor, Florida
Quadrant: N 27° 59.473 W 082° 41.321
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Safety Harbor, Florida
Safety Harbor, Florida is a jewel of a small town in the midst of one of America's largest metropolitan areas. Indigenous peoples lived in villages around Old Tampa Bay for thousands of years before encountering Spanish explorers in search of gold, and the Fountain of Youth. Safety Harbor may in fact be where the Fountain of Youth can be found. It is the site of several mineral springs thought to have health giving properties, and the location of the Safety Harbor Resort and Spa.
Philippe Park - Safety Harbor, Florida
One great day park for everyone on Tampa Bay. Used by many.
The Sprawling Treaty Oak in Jacksonville FL
Down in Jacksonville, Fl is a huge old tree that has been there since before the Revolutionary War. It is an awesome sight!
I write about trees often since I have such a fascination for them. And this one did not disappoint me. We were in Florida on vacation and I had to stop by for a few minutes to see this Treaty Oak. It was worth every moment.
It is in a tiny park no larger than the tree itself but spend a few minutes checking it out and you won't regret it. We are but a tiny cog on the wheel of life. You will know that when you stand beside it.
One day, I hope to go West and see the Sequoias and Redwood forests, but for now, this was the largest tree I had ever seen.
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The Oldest Tree in Florida! The Fairchild Oak.
The Fairchild Oak is the oldest tree in Florida and one of the oldest trees in the South. It's estimated to be about 2000 years old. It blows the mind to think of all of the things it has seen and survived. No video can do it justice.
Here is a little more information on the tree:
Here is a link to our hiking channel:
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A Really Big Tree!
This Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) is quite huge and quite old, and if it was in a city instead of this old field, it would have a park built around it in its behalf and would be given a name!
Florida's oldest oak tree
DUPONT PARK AND TREATY OAK ON THE RIVERBANK DOWNTOWN JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA
DUPONT PARK AND TREATY OAK ON THE RIVERBANK DOWNTOWN JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA
TREATY OAK AND DUPONT PARK DOWNTOWN JACKSONVILLE
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The Treaty Oak is an octopus-like Southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) in Jacksonville, Florida. The tree is estimated to be 250 years old and may be the single oldest living thing in Jacksonville, predating the founding of the city by Isaiah Hart during the 1820s. It is located in Treaty Oak Park in the Southbank area of Downtown Jacksonville.
The tree has a trunk over 25 feet in circumference, it rises to height of 70 feet, and its crown spreads over 145 feet, with twisting branches that bow to the ground and curl back up. The oak shades a roughly circular area, about 190 feet in diameter.[3]
In 1986, JEA began an important preservation program which grows seedlings from Treaty Oak acorns and makes them available through Greenscape for replanting throughout the city. Since the program was implemented, hundreds of seedlings have been planted, ensuring the legacy of the regal Jacksonville landmark.
A major project was completed in 1995 to preserve the tree and enhance the park, which was completed through the efforts of the city and private groups and individuals. Cables were installed in the tree to support limbs that threatened to damage the trunk, and a lightning protection system was installed.
The tree is located in Jessie Ball duPont Park, a 7-acre (2.8 ha) park on the south side of the St. Johns River in downtown Jacksonville. Most of the land surrounding the tree was the location of the Dixieland Amusement Park, which opened in 1907. During that time, the tree was festooned with electric lights and witnessed Babe Ruth playing baseball and John Phillip Sousa performing a concert.[5]
In the 1930s, the Garden Club of Jacksonville and Pat Moran began efforts to raise awareness and preserve the tree, which was targeted by developers. The land was soon purchased by the Alfred I. duPont Testamentary Trust at the request of Jessie Ball duPont, a garden club member, and was donated to the city of Jacksonville in 1964 with the stipulation that it be used only for a public park, one of the purposes of which is to preserve the ancient oak commonly known as the Treaty Oak ... for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public.
The city acquired additional property now included in the park, and the preserve was named in honor of Jessie Ball duPont, an ardent philanthropist and part-time Jacksonville resident, after her death in 1970. It is ironic that the smallest nature park in Jacksonville has the largest tree. The park contains paved walkpaths, a score of benches, a handful of picnic tables and informational plaques. It is a favorite spot for workers in nearby buildings who eat lunch, read a book or just sit and converse in the shade of its canopy.
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THE TREATY OAK MURDER IN AUSTIN TEXAS
Hope you enjoy this little piece of Austin history. Do you like these kinds of videos? Had you already heard this story?
Here's a link to the podcast I listened to:
Photos taken from news article archives.
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Quercus virginiana
A spreading southern tree of the white oak group, I captured this soundscape underneath a live oak in Ocala National Forest. At the 35 mark, after the insect sounds begin to fade out of the sonic texture, the live oak and the ever-present tentacles of Spanish moss contribute to a dark ultrasonic swish -- to my ears, almost having an ocean wave-like quality.
The beauty in sensation levels that emerge and recede in this live oak song reminded me (for some reason) of the importance of the medium. In other words, to transmit vibrations from one place to another requires that there be some material in the intervening space - this material is called the medium, and in this soundscape the live oak is the medium. It may be matter in any form- solid, liquid, or gas. It may be essentially one-dimensional, as for example a stretched string. It may be two-dimensional, as a stretched membrane on the head of a drum, the leaf of the live oak, or the surface of a body of water. It may be three-dimensional, as the interior of a body of water, or, the atmosphere around us. The string, the membrane, the leaf, the lakes and the atmosphere are all distinct, relevant, and equally important in the acoustic(s) of this world.
I must admit that this was a very relaxing soundscape to capture, despite the hard to ignore 'thug-level' of mosquitoes.
Treaty Oak
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Jacksonville's Treaty Oak
The Treaty Oak is an octopus-like Southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) in Jacksonville, Florida. The tree is estimated to be 250 years old[1][2] and may be the single oldest living thing in Jacksonville,[3] predating the founding of the city by Isaiah Hart during the 1820s. It is located in Treaty Oak Park in the Southbank area of Downtown Jacksonville.
Treaty Oak pruned
The famous Treaty Oak in Central Austin, nearly killed in 1989 by Paul Stedman Cullen was pruned for the first time since it's near death by a team of some of the top arborists in the state on January 24, 2009. Jenni Jones AMERICAN-STATESMAN
Treaty oak 1
A short video series of the Treaty Oak in Jacksonville Fl