The Chestnut Oaks of Brecksville Reservation
The Chestnut Oak is accredited in the books to dry soil and sandy ridges but it loves we situations as well. The little streams of northern Ohio which make their way into Lake Erie cut for themselves deep channels through the yielding shale and form ravines from fifty to to hundred feet deep. Down the sides of these ravines and into the narrow intervale crowd the chestnut oaks, until the lowest stands at the water's edge, its pendulous branches bending over the stream. | Source: Keeler, Harriet L. Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them. 3rd ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. 340. Print.