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 ...

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. NASHVILLE — Here is the sound in our family room on a windy day in October: ...

While many of us will be admiring the breathtaking red, yellow, bronze and gold hues of oak trees over the next few weeks, a wide array of Georgia’s wild creatures will be relying on the oaks for a ...

Since I first got interested in native edible plants, I had heard about the edibility of oak acorns. I read in many books and articles in mainstream publications and heard personal accounts that ...

Depending on where you live, you may have noticed an unusual number of acorns dropping from oak trees recently. It appears to be a mast year in much of the D.C. region – when oaks produce a bumper ...

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 ...