by all means oak is a good buildings specie, just alittle hard to work with aspecially if it becomes a little on the dry side, and is knotty,

Over my career it has always been advantageous to do a thinning of a treed area to remove th mature trees and let the younger growth have a breath of fresh air and sun

I have called on the ministry of natural resources timber specialists to go through and prepare an assesment of the tree lot, and recommend and mark trees for removal, by all means just don't go in and start cutting and make a hole in the tree stand, --not good-- but done right is beneficial

NH