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 ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. In addition to its value as a timber and wildlife species, scarlet oak is ...

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 ...

Houston’s landscape may look browner than usual after this week’s frigid spell, but where the environment is healthy, there is no such thing as the ‘dead’ of winter. Hundreds of species of creatures ...

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.

Anecdotal evidence has long shown that oak trees can act as a line of defense against spreading blazes. Now, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is trying to prove that native oaks can be used for fuel ...

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

Oak trees produce acorns in abundance every few years in a process known as mast seeding. Two years later, Lyme disease follows like clockwork. As hikers return to lush trails each summer, ready to ...

The mighty White Oak that seems to have been standing forever off Lees Hill Road in Harding Township has finally fallen. The landmark tree called the Warren Kinney Oak is believed to have taken root ...