Updyke later admitted to poisoning the sacred oak trees in January 2011 following the Tigers' 22-19 win over Oregon in the 2011 BCS championship game. “Let me tell you what I did,” Updyke said.

A public visitation day was held Saturday at the Sacred Oak in Oley Township ... Spatz said that he doesn’t buy into the legends of the tree having healing powers — a story that dates ...

While the Jurupa Oak is ancient, it’s no feeble thing ... of Jurupa Valley cannot release the location of the tree because it is sacred to Native Americans in the area. But if the ...

In fact, that centuries-old oak tree and the ground below it – the sacred, ancestral flats that stretch for miles east of Phoenix — are like kin to Azee’s family. “My little guy ...