'Once your acorn starts rooting, plant it in a container where it can grow for a while, since oaks develop a deep taproot ...

A White oak tree in Barrington. There's an explosion of acorns this year as red oaks and related trees are having a mast year. Then there’s the critical role oak trees play in the larger ecosystem.

Several cases of oak wilt fungus have been confirmed in the Bird Hills Nature Area after a concerned resident reported a tree that looked unhealthy to city officials.

The twigs are somewhat angular in appearance. Northern red oaks, which grow to 60 to 75 feet tall, are found mostly in upland areas. The natural range of northern red oak is the eastern United States ...

This map of red oak seed sources provides an example of a major threat to an important effort against climate change: major government and private funding is being invested in planting trees as a ...

Left untreated, oak wilt will continue to move from tree to tree through grafted root systems, killing more red oak over an increasingly large area when oaks grow close together.

Many people like to have some trees in their landscape. Our property has both white and pin oaks (a member of the red oak group). I recently saw an oak gall on a small pin oak. This is created ...

A: Oak seeds are found inside acorns, which are the fruits produced by these great, native trees. Not to gross anyone out, but those aren't seeds. Those are hundreds of droppings from solitary oak ...

However, when we need faster, more uniform germination we can speed them along by holding their seeds in a pair of pliers while we file through the red seed coat with a small, 3-cornered file.