GRAND TOWER — All appeared quiet and serene Tuesday morning at the Interpretive Site at the Oakwood Bottoms Greentree Reservoir and along the miles-long grey gravel road leading over to the Big Muddy ...

Fall is here, and so are acorns, falling from oak trees into yards everywhere. Viable acorns can be grown into oak trees, if properly handled. A: It’s common for the acorn crop on oak trees to vary ...

Determining the identity of a tree can be a bit challenging, especially during winter when leaves are not present. This is when knowing other characteristics are very helpful. Take the oak trees, as ...

On this edition of ID That Tree, meet a species of native Indiana oak from the broad red/black oak family, which is found in bottomlands and areas with imperfectly drained soil, the Pin Oak. This ...

Oak, the genus Quercus, is bumped into, climbed up in, sat under and fed upon by many during fall hunting, hiking, firewood cutting and photographing sessions. Years ago, one author wrote that “White ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Since 2016, a dedicated group of nature enthusiasts and I have worked to restore and protect monarchs ...

Since I first got interested in native edible plants, I had heard about the edibility of oak acorns. I read in many books and articles in mainstream publications and heard personal accounts that ...

The Virginia Department of Forestry is ready for acorn season. Gathering and sorting this year’s acorn crop is important for the preparation of growing the next generation of trees in Virginia.

Q: My boyfriend, Steven, is wondering why his pin oak tree is prematurely losing its leaves. It started last year. It seems the leaves are smaller than usual, and they started dropping from the bottom ...

A scanty acorn crop across Minnesota means the wide range of critters that feed on them will seek alternatives, and hunters, in turn, may not find deer or turkeys or wood ducks in the usual spots. The ...

Q. We planted a 10-foot-tall red oak in 1998. We love the fall color it gives us. This year it is producing a large crop of acorns. We would like to plant some acorns on our property in the Texas Hill ...