Our daughter, Sarah, gave Pam and I four grandchildren. The first two, Alyssa, twelve, and Lane, ten, are ordinary enough, but the last two are cut a little bit differently. Colt, three, I think was ...

If you have an oak tree in your yard or place of business, or take a walk in the woods or a park this time of year, you’ll likely notice acorns. Close inspection reveals they come in all shapes and ...

“Here’s a red oak that’s dropped,” Lindsay Thomas said Wednesday morning as we walked on Capitol Hill near the Taft Carillon. He bent down and picked up the end of a branch, splaying out its dozen or ...

Have you ever gone for a walk at summer's end, picked up an acorn and put it in your pocket? If you take that acorn out of your pocket and plant it, your homegrown valley oak, live oak or other ...

All of the 400 or so species of oaks in the world belong to the genus Quercus, and North Americans are blessed with about 100 of them. You may have heard that American oaks, that is, those in the ...

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 ...

Acorns aren't just food for wildlife, they are the seeds for the next generation of white oaks. For the past decade, researchers say there haven’t been enough of them in Connecticut. “Prolonged ...