Acorns are nutritious and surprisingly useful, but are largely overlooked because preparing them for consumption requires a ...

During the spring months, the Pennsylvania Game Commission plans to spray over 38,000 acres of state game land to reduce the damage done by the spongy moth to protect wildlife habitat. Spraying will ...

Jim Crouch says he knows too much to do nothing. So, he’s trying to do something. Something big. What’s big in Crouch’s world ...

The live oak has nourished and protected the continent’s inhabitants for many centuries. Beginning in pre-Columbian America, Native peoples have ground the tree’s acorns into meal and knew its ...

The oak is the king of trees, as naturalist Donald Peattie noted 75 years ago in his magisterial guide to North American trees. Its timber framed our homes. Its leaves, acorns and shade still ...

“Basically, you should be on guard,‘’ she said, explaining that 2023 in New York City was a mast year, a year in which Oak trees drop huge volumes of acorns. This happens every three to five ...