Oak tree with leaves at end of branch only

elsolo21

I have an Oak tree where most of the lower branches only have leaves at the end of the branches. They are pretty big branches. I've been trimming a few completely dead branches each year for a number of years. On these existing branches, it looks like the entire branch is dead except for the last few feet. Any suggestions for what to do with this? Should I take them down, prune the smaller dead off-shoot branches or just leave them. They just look very strange.

thanks for yous help.

Eric Frei

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