Maybe you’ve been plonked on the head one too many times while out in the woods. Or you’ve come across a patch of forest floor that made it feel like you were walking on marbles. If either of these ...

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You might have noticed oak trees have gone a little nutty this year, but don’t worry, the sky is not falling. Oak trees in ...

Plunk! Plop! Gee whiz! Some acorn season this is! Last year our oaks made only a handful of acorns on each tree. This year, the sound of acorns falling punctuates our lives 24/7. Acorns crunch ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- This fall, you may have noticed that acorns have been falling by the bucket load. Some people look to what nature is doing now, to try to figure out what the weather will be in ...

Have you noticed that there are a LOT more acorns than usual this fall? I know I have. Acorns are the nut/fruit of oak trees, and we certainly have a TON of oaks around San Antonio and the Hill ...

EAST MOLINE -- A million acorns is a lot, but Living Lands & Waters will have to squirrel away more than that to reach its goal of planting 1 million hardwood trees in the next five to 10 years. Not ...

STUNG! This Brooklyn ACORN staffer was caught on camera counseling "pimp and hooker" James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles. WASHINGTON — The House yesterday approved a cutoff of all ACORN funding by an ...

You’ve likely seen a squirrel dashing around with an oak tree acorn in its mouth. It may be about to eat lunch, or it may be stowing acorns in its pantry for later meals. But where, exactly, are ...

In the deepest days of winter, when all seems dark, nature is hard at work. Take the acorn. Somewhere, under the litter of leaves in the woods, in the angle of a fallen log, or in the tilled soil of a ...

The longstanding links between the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CHD) and the left-wing activist group ACORN continue to grab the media spotlight. This week, Associated Press and CNN were ...

The other day, while walking Sadie, I passed a large oak-like tree with acorn-like nuts scattered at the trunk base. Some of the nuts were cracked in half, while others were in pristine condition. I ...