A Plant Guide published by the Natural Resources Conservation Service provides an exhaustive list of the ways California Native Americans used blue oak wood, bark and acorns, including as ...

If you observe blue jays consistently flying to and fro on the same flight pattern, and oaks are around, you can be sure they’re raiding acorn-rich oaks. On Oct. 23, I was at a site in Licking ...

Unlike acorns in the red oak group, which germinate in springtime, ... A single blue jay can collect 3,000 to 5,000 acorns a year, gathering them from up to a mile away.

The Green Initiative Fund, or UC Berkeley’s Campus Green Fund, awarded $5,000 to the Oak Woodland Restoration Project at UC Berkeley’s Hastings Natural History Reservation last fall.

Acorn Armageddon: Why are our oak trees producing so many acorns this year? Large waves of acorns have been noted across the region this fall, and the reason is somewhat of a mystery. To stream ...