Red oak acorns contain more tannin than their white oak cousins, so they’re not as tasty. So, given a choice, deer will select white oak nuts over the red variety, but in many instances ...

One of the most important parts of any forest ecosystem or ecology is the mighty oak tree. It is often a huge sprawling tree with thick heavy branches, large dark green leaves and a trunk covered ...

Most species in the red oak family may generate big numbers of acorns every four years or so. Varieties of white oak may do ...

“We plant approximately 65,000 pounds of white oak acorns every year to make that goal.” Hank Stelzer/MU Extension Oak acorns provide food for a variety of wildlife.

Landowners are asked to consider establishing white oak seed orchards on their property with the goal of providing a steady supply of white oak acorns from the best quality trees. “It's an opportunity ...

An acorn requires special conditions to be met ... Protect And Care For Your Tender Sapling White oak and swamp oak, for example, will germinate soon after they're planted in the fall, but as ...

The George O. White State Forest Nursery plants approximately 6,500 pounds of white oak acorns every year. An earlier version of this article included an incorrect amount. Foresters across the ...

Acorn woodpeckers also feed by sallying ... but lacks white rump and belly; Lewis’s lacks white areas in plumage. Common. Year-round: oak woodlands and mixed oak-conifer or oak-riparian woodlands.