Virginians can help preserve native tree species by collecting acorns and seeds from 13 species and delivering them to the nearest office of the Virginia Department of Forestry (VDOF). Acorns and ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Department of Forestry is asking Virginians to help preserve native trees by collecting acorns and seeds from 11 species. Officials say the best time to collect ...

Watch an oak tree growing from an acorn to a young plant over 133 days in this time-lapse. We picked white oak because it can be germinated immediately without a need for cold-stratification like red ...

Last year’s mild winter has led to a bumper crop of acorns this fall. The unusual abundance is the result of a “mast seeding event,” a phenomenon that happens once every few years, in which oak trees ...

Maryland residents are invited to join September seed and acorn collection events as part of the Maryland 5 Million Tree Initiative. The Antietam-Conococheague Watershed Alliance is coordinating group ...

More than a few inquiries to our Master Gardener Help Desk have asked why there appears to be so many acorns this year compared with last year. Turns out, this phenomenon is not limited to this year, ...

If you have oak trees in your neighborhood, perhaps you’ve noticed that some years the ground is carpeted with their acorns, and some years there are hardly any. Biologists call this pattern, in which ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Trees use seeds as a principal means of establishing their next generation in ...

Virginians can help preserve tree species by collecting acorns and seeds from 12 species and delivering them to the nearest office of the Virginia Department of Forestry (VDOF). Acorns and seeds must ...