Foraging for wild, edible plants can add a unique set of ingredients to your kitchen. But, you need to know how use them.

One of the most important, yet challenging, skills to nail down as a wilderness survivalist is tree identification. Beyond ...

SAN ANTONIO – Oak trees are the backbone of South Central Texas. Hardy, evergreen and beautiful, oak trees can also provide plenty of shade. But neighborhoods like Live Oak, Shavano Park ...

An acorn woodpecker, a native bird of the Sunol Wilderness Regional Preserve, sits in an oak tree. Acorn woodpeckers are known to collect acorns in the fall and store them in trees throughout the year ...

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Police were called after protesters used their vehicles to prevent access to a 120-year-old tree set for the chop. Campaigners have been gathering at the Old King George oak, in Wivenhoe High ...

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The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...

They’ll eat insects, fruits, reptiles and eggs of other birds, but they always favour the nut of the oak tree, acorns packed with healthy fats (like those in olive oil and fish) and essential ...

other times they’re looking to drain the sap from the trees for a treat,” Houts said. “Acorns are the nuts that grow on oak trees, and every different oak tree here in the Bay Area makes a different ...