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

Raleigh will soon remove from Nash Square the downtown art piece, which is crumbling, and allow it to decompose at Marsh ...

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

King County just saw a 35% drop in gun violence, and Seattle violent crimes are down by unusual, double-digit percentages.

With spring blooming all around us, it's only natural to pay a bit more attention to the trees than we usually might. But ...

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 ...

A debate continues among scientists over whether tree composition in forests in eastern North America historically have been ...

"These trees were very important to the Native American diet because of the mast—nuts and acorns—they produced ... in somewhat cooler areas where oak-pine forests transitioned to northern ...

North American historically have been influenced more by climate or by cultural burning, which is the intentional and ...

May is one of my favorite months of the year. Trees are flowering and the catkins are on the poplars. Birds are singing and ...