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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A group of University of Toronto forestry students collected acorns from a giant White Oak tree at Queen's Park on Wednesday as part of an effort to preserve the diversity of Toronto's native trees.

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 ...

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 ...

Although it's the second full week of November, David and I are still eating tomatoes from our garden. Several weeks ago, right before the first killing frost, I picked as many green ones as I could ...

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 ...