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 ...

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 ...

“There were many splendid oaks,” wrote John S. Wilcox in 1906, describing Kane County at the time of European settlement. “Massive boles would square over two feet, which rose straight as arrows, with ...

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 ...

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 ...

The last several years have been hard on oak trees in The Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor and throughout much of southern New England. The worst were the successive dry years of 2015, ...

The Arkansas Forestry Commission announced that leaf damage has been confirmed in clusters of white oak trees in north and central Arkansas areas due to jumping oak gall, or small plant growths caused ...

Herbicide drift, when pesticides "drift" from the targeted application area to a nontargeted area was studied by researchers who evaluated the effects of field corn herbicides on white oak seedlings.

A 71-year-old disabled veteran was struck and killed by a vehicle in Oak Park early Saturday morning on West Nine Mile Road near Harding Street. Disabled veteran fatally struck in Oak Park, driver ...

The Stark County Park District is updating its logo throughout the park system. Stark Parks' new logo is a white oak leaf, which is a symbol of the park system. The logo change will be implemented ...