The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Acorns develop in 2019 on an oak tree in Amana. Native oak trees can support hundreds of species of ...

The bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) is a noble native tree. This oak has large (5- to 9-inch-long), dark-green leaves. The base fiddle-shaped leaves have deep, rounded sinuses. The acorns are most ...

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 ...

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 ...

Acorns cling to the leaves of an oak tree in the uptown area of Dallas on Nov. 15. Trees in North Texas are producing a lot amount of a acorns this year due to a natural phenomenon known as "masting." ...

Have you noticed that there are a LOT more acorns than usual this fall? I know I have. Acorns are the nut/fruit of oak trees, and we certainly have a TON of oaks around San Antonio and the Hill ...

If you’ve been on a walk lately, you may notice the sidewalks are a bit more crunchy than usual, with a lot more acorns on the ground this year. Texas oak trees are experiencing something called a ...

California’s American Indians were more than hunter gatherers. They used fire to burn away the dry chaff so acorns could fall on barren ground to make collecting easier. This also reduced the ...

As I reported in November, acorns were uncharacteristically aplenty on Long Island last fall. This could be attributed to the cyclical nature of mature oak trees, which shed an increased number of ...

Marin natives Kirsten and Todd Brockman love their oak tree so much that they gave it a name — Mother Treesa. “She welcomes people to our house, standing so gracefully at the street’s edge,” says ...

If the squirrels seem happier than usual these days, it’s because this has been a bumper year for acorns. We’re not talking about just a few extra of the hard, woody capsules. The oak trees are ...

Do you feel like you're crunching on acorns every time you step outside? In Ohio, that could be true. That's thanks to a slightly above average production of acorns from white oaks. In some places, it ...