Oak trees have been around for more than 50 million years, with individual trees easily living 1,000 years. One of the oldest oak trees in the U.S. is believed to be at least 2,624 years old. The ...

Find out what types of oak trees are best for your growing conditions, from dry to wet, and sandy to clay soil. I'm a big fan of all types of oak trees, and I’ve even sprouted an acorn from a tree at ...

Question: We noticed a difference in the oak trees. Which one greens up first with the glossy leaves and which one produces all the fluffy stuff? Answer: Most years there it is a matter of weeks ...

LISLE, Ill. (Sept. 24, 2024)— Over a third of threatened or understudied oak tree species in Mesoamerica are not held in managed botanical collections anywhere in the world, and for many species, ...

Maybe you’ve been plonked on the head one too many times while out in the woods. Or you’ve come across a patch of forest floor that made it feel like you were walking on marbles. If either of these ...

When Illinois landowners noticed tree deaths and diseases on their properties ramp up in 2017, they suspected industrial agriculture. A survey found herbicides in 90 percent of tree tissues ...

Few average Joes can correctly identify every species of oak growing in North America. That’s the kind of Final Jeopardy-level knowledge typically reserved for foresters, wildlife biologists, and very ...

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 ...

INJURY ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK STATE TEAM. THE 160,000 ACRES OF BERNHEIM FOREST AND ARBORETUM ARE HOME TO COUNTLESS PLANTS AND ANIMALS, AND AS OUR SAM CARTER DISCOVERED, THE FOREST NOW HAS AN EXPANDED ...

Waiting until the leaves drop in fall is a rule of thumb for pruning shade trees, mainly because you can see bare limbs better, and the job is less “messy” without leaves attached to the cut branches.