Officials behind Orange County’s newest conservation area, the nearly 400-acre Randall Preserve, are seeking input as they ...

Love watching hummingbirds and butterflies? Well, if you plant this fast-growing tree in your yard, those beautiful creatures ...

Valentine, Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration Chris Evelyn, Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration Climate change is predicted to have major influences on ...

The children were part of the Capitol Junior Rangers program, a statewide initiative for children aged 7 to 12 to learn about ...

California’s Wildlife Conservation Board has voted to grant more than $10 million to protect a 27,000-acre cattle ranch on the Central Coast that is home to hundreds of species of native plants ...

They focus on a specific keystone species: the coast live oak. Not only do these native oaks support the habitats of some 250 species, but they’re also surprisingly fire-resistant. They have brambly ...

Coast live oak leaves with brown, scorched margins due to feeding on the leaf underside by the two-horned oak gall wasp. (Photo by Jack Kelly Clark) These wasps are native to California, and form ...

The iconic Big Tree, a 1,000-plus,-year-old coastal live oak at Goose Island State park near Rockport, before the Hurricane Harvey. The tree, one of the largest coastal live oaks in Texas ...

The oak species in question -- Quercus garryana-- requires a dry environment. As a result, oak savannas are often found in the rain shadow of the West Coast's mountain range, Prior explained.

The U.S. government is proposing to declare the Bethany Beach firefly as threatened, the first time officials have sought to add a firefly to the Endangered Species Act list.

These 17 common oak species out of about 400 total varieties of oak trees and shrubs range from ... The trees reside in poorly draining lowlands on the Southern coast and along rivers in the South ...

One of the most famous is Angel Oak, a titan 400 or more years old on Johns Island in South Carolina. A low-country tourist attraction because of its majestic beauty, it is protected from developers.