The United States will celebrate its 250th birthday next year, and Auglaize County is already preparing to mark the milestone ...

Few average Joes can correctly identify every species of oak growing in North America. That’s the kind of Final Jeopardy-level knowledge typically reserved for foresters, wildlife biologists, and very ...

The 2025 Acorn Mast survey, conducted by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, finds an average of 72% of red oaks and 56 ...

White oak (Quercus alba) is important economically, ecologically, and culturally. However, the species currently faces a ...

It's that time of year when the Tennessee Department of Agriculture's Division of Forestry calls for help from Tennesseans ...

Atlanta is known as the "City in the Forest," but, largely due to ongoing development, the canopy is shrinking. While the city recently amended its tree protection ordinance to increase fees for ...

Foresters across the country are asking private landowners for help saving white oak trees, and Missourians have eagerly answered the call. More than 40 people recently signed up to help the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A family in South Knoxville is cleaning up after storms knocked over a massive and historic white oak tree dating back to the early roots of the United States of America. Leigh Ann ...

Small acorns produce forest giants, and in Tennessee, the white oak is perhaps king. The white oak is a keystone tree species in Tennessee for both wildlife and wood products, but experts are ...

Workers take raw white oak logs and craft them into staves for 53-gallon bourbon barrels at Robinson Stave Mill and East Bernstadt Cooperage in East Bernstadt, Kentucky. The staves are dried in their ...

There are five key rules to follow when making bourbon whiskey. First, it must be distilled in the United States, and it must be a grain mixture with at least 51 percent corn mash. There can be no ...

This year’s annual acorn survey shows the state’s white oaks once again failed to produce any significant acorn numbers.