UO’s Campus was once almost treeless!

Believe it.  Despite the fact that campus today is a living arboretum, in the early years of UO, it had almost no trees.  The only trees on campus during its founding in 1976 were a pair of oak trees, known as the “Condon Oaks.”  The first tree was adopted by the class of 1897.  The second was removed in 2004.

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Did you know the old campus quad used to have * a lot * more trees!  The infamous Columbus day storm of 1932 took down several of the larger trees in this area.