SDSU is planting a hybrid oak in a Brookings, SD park to commemorate Arbor Day this weekend. It's great to see an oak being chosen for the planting, instead of the Siberian elms, green ash or blue spruce that were likely the choices. I don't have anything against those species (although the same can't be said for the panoply of insect and fungal pests that are effectively wiping them out), but oaks have been criminally under planted for decades, and it's great to see an increased emphasis on planting oaks.
But of I course I wouldn't be me without injected a mild quibble with the article. If you're planting a hybrid oak are you really planted a "certain species" of tree? (Then again as longtime readers - note the optimistic/delusional use of the plural - know, I defy anyone to plant an oak that isn't, to one degree or another, a hybrid.)
Some friends and I once ran a marathon relay in Brookings, SD. The only hills on the course were the man-made ramps to create freeway overpasses.
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