As I reported in November, acorns were uncharacteristically aplenty on Long Island last fall. This could be attributed to the cyclical nature of mature oak trees, which shed an increased number of ...

Acorns cling to the leaves of an oak tree in the uptown area of Dallas on Nov. 15. Trees in North Texas are producing a lot amount of a acorns this year due to a natural phenomenon known as "masting." ...

MOLINE, Ill. — If you plan on taking advantage of the last few hot days of the year, you might want to watch your head. White oak trees are dropping thousands of acorns during what's called a "mast ...

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 ...

Have you noticed that there are a LOT more acorns than usual this fall? I know I have. Acorns are the nut/fruit of oak trees, and we certainly have a TON of oaks around San Antonio and the Hill ...

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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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Several WCCO viewers, including Leah from Coon Rapids and Robert from Oak Grove, wrote to us wanting to know: why are there so many nuts? The Minnesota Department of Natural ...

I’m interested in the Regal Prince Oak trees being planted in downtown Rochester. The squirrels should be jumping for joy with such a plethora of acorns soon to be descending upon our city streets ...

California’s American Indians were more than hunter gatherers. They used fire to burn away the dry chaff so acorns could fall on barren ground to make collecting easier. This also reduced the ...

It’s no secret that whitetails love acorns. Ask any food-plot or farm-field hunter where his buck disappeared to in early fall, and if he’s not guessing “to an oak stand somewhere,” he hasn’t been ...

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 ...