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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blue oak (Quercus douglasii), gray pine (Pinus sabiniana) and buckeye (Aesculus californica) are three species that thrive in rugged local foothill woodland and chaparral habitat. Today and in the ...

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.

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 ...

As the name suggests, California oak moths are a native species, and their offspring like to feed on native coast live oak trees, or any other oak tree that happens to be in their path. Despite ...