Please, please, please magic marker “NOT” … “no oak trimming” every year on your calendar for February, March, April, May, and June. This applies to all oaks – white, red, and live. All are precious.

Educate neighbors.

Stop “clean up” projects that involve oaks.

If you think an unspruced-up tree looks bad, just drive along long stretches of Central Texas roads with bare naked dead live oaks.

These dead live oaks pose no oak wilt danger. They mark the ...