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 ...

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

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 ...

An acorn requires special conditions to be met ... Protect And Care For Your Tender Sapling White oak and swamp oak, for ...

“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.

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 ...

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.