In the deepest days of winter, when all seems dark, nature is hard at work. Take the acorn. Somewhere, under the litter of leaves in the woods, in the angle of a fallen log, or in the tilled soil of a ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Beginning as early as late August and continuing through December, various ...

A late Christmas present arrived at the Moreland Hill Townhouses yesterday morning, in the form of a 30-foot-tall blue spruce. The tree was planted on the Camelot Street property to replace the blue ...

Acorns come from oak trees, and their production varies year over year and per location. Oak trees in one area and climate might be considered a bumper crop, meaning they produce an especially large ...

Maybe you’ve been plonked on the head one too many times while out in the woods. Or you’ve come across a patch of forest floor that made it feel like you were walking on marbles. If either of these ...

Throughout Michigan, especially metro Detroit, residents are asking why there seems to be an abundance of oaknuts this year. One posted to a Facebook group for suburban gardeners that she had lived in ...