Majestic oak trees are considered to be Super Trees for their beauty and the positives they bring to our ecosystem. A local ...

We’ll be discussing mast years for oak trees in this edition of Weather Tidbits. If you have an oak tree in your yard, you ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Acorns develop in 2019 on an oak tree in Amana. Native oak trees can support hundreds of species of ...

Many caterpillars feed on the leaves of oak trees. Most will not do much damage, but some can pose a real threat to the health of the tree. Here’s what you need to know to identify the caterpillars on ...

There has been widespread concern that some native California oaks were not regenerating adequately. Three California oak ...

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 ...

You don’t have to hunt deer for very long to realize that oak trees and the acorns they drop each fall are hugely important to deer. If fact, most hunters know that the majority oak trees fall into ...

The tallest tree in Indiana used to be in Hamilton County, a Bitternut Hickory standing at an impressive 152 feet. The tree's ...

As the population of California continues to increase, the threat of wildfires also increases. This is because most wildfires ...

Oak trees around Minnesota have suffered from bouts of heavy precipitation and drought — conditions that make them more vulnerable to two-lined chestnut borer, a beetle that eats the inner bark of oak ...

Galls are small, tumor-like growths formed on plants that act as incubators for oak gall wasp larvae. Parasitic wasps often lay their own eggs in these galls, which later feed on their victims. North ...