Boundary Hills in DuPage County is now home to 25 new oak trees thanks to local 4-H youth, community members, and organizations. The group of oak trees, known as a savanna, will help restore this ...

School children have helped plant 850 trees in celebration of Glasgow 850. Primary seven pupils from Miller Primary School, ...

Mississippians spend an inordinate amount of time in their yards, and throughout the South, people maintain their yards keeping pesky weeds away. What Mississippians don't know many times is that some ...

Question: Yesterday I read that “oaks are a keystone species”. What exactly does that mean? Answer: A keystone species is a plant, animal or microorganism that is vitally important to its environment.

In 1872, a Nebraska newspaper editor and tree lover named J. Sterling Morton proposed dedicating a day to planting trees in his home state. The idea, shall we say, took root. That year, April 10 ...

Fall is an ideal time to consider planting an oak tree. The mighty oak, America’s National Tree, is visually appealing, with this wide leafy crown and broadly spreading limbs. Yet, it is more than a ...

ESCONDIDO, Calif. — An Escondido man needs your help to plant twenty thousand oak trees. In this Zevely Zone, I follow up on a dream that continues to grow. With the passing of President Jimmy Carter ...

Oak trees have been around for more than 50 million years, with individual trees easily living 1,000 years. One of the oldest oak trees in the U.S. is believed to be at least 2,624 years old. The ...

HUDSON — Members of the Hudson Ag 4-H Club helped plant 25 oak trees Tuesday near Lake Bloomington, laying the groundwork for a 6-acre natural savanna. Members of the youth agricultural organization ...