The bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) is a noble native tree. This oak has large (5- to 9-inch-long), dark-green leaves. The base fiddle-shaped leaves have deep, rounded sinuses. The acorns are most ...

It’s not often I vacuum my backyard. Actually, I’ve never vacuumed it until last week. My problem was an increasing number of acorns the neighborhood squirrels were chewing off our bur oak tree (also ...

Fall is here, and so are acorns, falling from oak trees into yards everywhere. Viable acorns can be grown into oak trees, if properly handled. A: It’s common for the acorn crop on oak trees to vary ...

Native plant specialist Nadia Navarrete-Tindall is looking for a few good people (even just one person!) to make flour from Burr Oak Acorns. Why? Because it's a rare find, and if found, can sell for ...

Late September is a marvelous time in which we witness the autumn moving in at a faster pace. The migration of raptors continues as these birds channel down the North Shore, passing over us as they ...

BUR OAKS produce some very large acorns, and the trees are well-suited to all of Texas. Dear Neil: What type of oak has very large leaves and extremely large acorns (almost 2 inches tall — see photo)?

Some fine big trees grow under Montana's Big Sky. We just have to find them. Hawthorne Elementary School students were thrilled to learn the bur oak that shades their playground ranks as a Montana ...

The bur oaks in Hyde Park are survivors. A few are even from a time before Paul Cornell convinced the railroad to make a ...

For the next few months, Katrina Quint has one request for visitors to the Lincoln Park Zoo: Look up. Across from the white-cheeked gibbon enclosure sits a great, sprawling bur oak tree, about 45 feet ...