The bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) is a noble native tree. This oak has large (5- to 9-inch-long), dark-green leaves. The base fiddle-shaped leaves have deep, rounded sinuses. The acorns are most ...

Fall is here, and so are acorns, falling from oak trees into yards everywhere. Viable acorns can be grown into oak trees, if properly handled. A: It’s common for the acorn crop on oak trees to vary ...

BRAINERD — Last week’s cooler weather beckoned those who lean toward the outdoors, or at least got them thinking about it. Read more Bill Marchel I took advantage of the comfortable temperatures to ...

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 ...

Oak, the genus Quercus, is bumped into, climbed up in, sat under and fed upon by many during fall hunting, hiking, firewood cutting and photographing sessions. Years ago, one author wrote that “White ...

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 ...

It’s not often I vacuum my backyard. Actually, I’ve never vacuumed it until last week. My problem was an increasing number of acorns the neighborhood squirrels were chewing off our bur oak tree (also ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Acorns falling across Vanderbilt University have become a part of a new partnership and important project aimed at replacing Tennessee’s lost Oak trees. Nathan Hoover, with ...

Three hundred years ago, about the time Daniel Boone's father was born, a bur oak acorn sprouted on a piece of high ground on what would become the south side of a city named Lexington. There was no ...

Some fine big trees grow under Montana's Big Sky. We just have to find them. Hawthorne Elementary School students were thrilled to learn the bur oak that shades their playground ranks as a Montana ...