Growing an oak tree from an acorn can be a fun and rewarding project. By planting the seed of a tree that could potentially live for hundreds of years, providing shade and a habitat for wildlife, ...

As efforts to add native vegetation to the La Jolla Bike Path continue, the latest planting is about as native as you can get. An oak tree sapling planted recently on a hillside next to the bike path ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Thunk! If you're lucky to share a habitat with oak trees, you know the sound of acorns dropping into lawns, bouncing off sidewalks, and ...

Monarch Research Project wants Iowans to know that the acorn is mighty. “Most people don’t realize that (the oak tree) is a keystone element in the ecosystem,” said Clark McLeod, cofounder of the ...

A deadly disease threatening some of the west coast's most important cultural and environmental plants has spread again, this time to Yurok tribal lands in Del Norte County, California. With cultural ...

MOLINE, Ill. — If you plan on taking advantage of the last few hot days of the year, you might want to watch your head. White oak trees are dropping thousands of acorns during what's called a "mast ...

Andrew L. Hipp, illus. by Rachel D. Davis. Univ. of Chicago, $35 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-226-82357-7 Hipp (Field Guide to Wisconsin Sedges), herbarium director at the Morton Arboretum in ...

If an acorn falls in a forest, does it make a sound? Who cares? When it falls in the urban forest, however, it can drive you nuts. Ask Karen Stewart, who has spent the fall crushing acorns with her ...