Column by Scott Anderson, Brown County Agrilife Extension
Three months after Winter Storm Uri blasted Texas with a week of freezing temperatures, many landowners are concerned the cold weather killed their oak trees.
Texas has a wide variety of native oak species, with many prized trees on private and public lands estimated to be hundreds or even thousands of years old. So, landowners were understandably alarmed when other species of trees budded out as normal while oaks remain bare-branched or sparsely leafed.
But Texas A&M Forest Service (TFS) experts caution Texans not to throw in the towel yet when it comes to the hardy oaks.