A squirrel makes its way down a tree in Old West Lawrence recently while holding tightly to an Asian pear. Because of a shortage of acorns from red oak trees, squirrels will need to find ...

A group of Nuwä Indian people, some fellow Native Californians, and a few of their allies gathered in Tehachapi last weekend ...

Its leaves, acorns and shade still sustain more life — fungal, entomic, avian, mammalian, human — than any other North American tree ... oak, hickory and pine, which provided nuts for their ...

But to the oak trees that these weevils often feed ... are native to eastern North America and mainly feed on the nuts or seeds of trees. They often use their rostrum to drill holes in acorns, either ...

Acorns are nutritious and surprisingly useful, but are largely overlooked because preparing them for consumption requires a lot of time and patience.