400-year-old oak tree will remain
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LAKELAND – The 400-year-old oak tree that dropped a limb weighing more than a ton on Independence Day will not be cut down.
Tom Campbell, of the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry, examined the tree Monday, a move that had been requested by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, on whose right-of-way the tree sits, and by Pointe Coupee Parish Police Jury president Melanie Bueche, who lives 150 feet away.
Campbell said the limb that fell had a specific defect that the oak’s other limbs do not have. There are some dead limbs that should be removed, he said.
The tree is called the Miss Jane Pittman Oak by many people because author Earnest Gaines drew inspiration for parts of the book “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” while sitting under the tree.
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