As a critical food source for many forest wildlife species, acorn abundance has been linked to body condition, winter ...

We’ll be discussing mast years for oak trees in this edition of Weather Tidbits. If you have an oak tree in your yard, you ...

One recent late afternoon David and I drove up to the pipeline cut on the wooded hillside to look at the color changes of the ...

With the onset of autumn comes vibrant leaves, crisp air, and a fair share of fallen acorns. This year, however, you may have ...

Although it's the second full week of November, David and I are still eating tomatoes from our garden. Several weeks ago, right before the first killing frost, I picked as many green ones as I could ...

By flooding the forest floor with a colossal number of acorns all at once, the trees ensure these animals can eat their fill, ...

This subject should have appeared last fall. Our giant northern red oak had a massive crop of acorns — the largest crop ever — for this giant tree planted around 1970. At that time, the young tree was ...

A Salisbury resident emailed me last week and was concerned about his oak trees. They were doing quite well but had no acorns for the past two seasons. He was wondering if there was a problem with his ...

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 ...