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Ernest Hemingway remembered his native Oak Park, Ill., for “broad lawns and narrow minds.”

It’s an open question as to how much of the native oak savanna could be reclaimed, she said, but efforts are underway to map a once-distinct ecosystem in the heart of America.

These native oak trees, which can support hundreds of different species of insects, birds and fungi, will be needed in the race to reforest the UK.

They were first planted here in the 19th century because they grow faster and produce more wood than the native oak and birch trees.

If there was a specific native plant I was to begin with, it would be with our native oak trees.