James Canton spent two years sitting beneath an 800-year-old oak tree near his home in Essex, watching acorns fatten and ...

White oaks (Quercus alba) are durable, large canopied, long-lived trees that grow slowly and are common in southern Wisconsin ...

Four cultural stewards of sustainability unpack how indigo embodies Black fashion’s legacy of labor, innovation, and enduring ...

State lawmakers are paid $71,685 a year and can be reimbursed for up to $10,800 for travel, meals and incidental expenses. Financial disclosures they filed in June show they also enjoyed perks from ...

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.

The odds have always been tremendously against any individual acorn successfully germinating and eventually growing into a mature oak tree. But since California was settled and developed over the past ...

Some acorns might require cold stratification before they will sprout. The main stem got stuck that's why it sprouted two new ones instead. And it got a bit stressed by the move from the water to ...

Setting frequent surface fires under oak savannahs maximized acorn production by reducing insect pests, controlling fungi and bacteria and optimizing the structure of the woodland.

This has been a banner year for one of the main wild food sources in the Tehachapi Mountains: acorns. Acorns are the nuts produced by our various species of tree and shrub oaks. Our landscape is ...

Acorn production is strong in red oak trees this year, according to the 2024 Acorn Mast Survey conducted by the ODNR.

What is an oak tree mast year? There are different types of oak trees, and they don’t all follow the same schedule for acorn production.