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 ...

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 ...

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.

Concerning the large acorn crop and a way to reduce it, I am afraid I don’t have a very sympathetic solution for that either. Live oak acorns don’t produce many new trees in a mature landscape ...

About 57% of red oak trees will produce acorns in any given year. This year, that rate reached 87%. ... The bumper year is positive news for animals like squirrels, blue jays, deer, ...

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.

ESCONDIDO, Calif. — An Escondido man is trying to save a rare species of oak tree by collecting thousands of acorns. In this Zevely Zone, I found out why a retired science teacher needs your ...