Few average Joes can correctly identify every species of oak growing in North America. That’s the kind of Final Jeopardy-level knowledge typically reserved for foresters, wildlife biologists, and very ...

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 ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Volunteers with Old Forester Bourbon planted hundreds of trees that could one day become bourbon barrels. On Tuesday, 800 white oak seedlings were put in the ground at the ...

Small acorns produce forest giants, and in Tennessee, the white oak is perhaps king. The white oak is a keystone tree species in Tennessee for both wildlife and wood products, but experts are ...

On a Central Kentucky hillside, over a thousand American white oak stand in neat rows, just barely towering over nearby blades of grass. These trees, currently just seedlings, have sat in this field ...

Greenwood Forestry CFO Mike Woolery examines a dead white oak tree during a Woodland Owner’s Association field session in Amana on Aug. 27. Foresters and tree professionals explored three locations to ...

The symptoms were strange. They were the same across multiple oak species—white, swamp white, black, red, post, shingle, ...

Virginia Sen. Mark Warner and Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell last week introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at safeguarding America's white oak tree population. Why it matters: The wood from white ...

In the Ozarks, white oak basketry is part of a long, proud history of family tradition and respect for nature. The products, woven from wide bands of pale wood, are not only functional but pleasing to ...

You don’t have to hunt deer for very long to realize that oak trees and the acorns they drop each fall are hugely important to deer. If fact, most hunters know that the majority oak trees fall into ...

RICHMOND, KY – The environmental office at Blue Grass Army Depot collaborated with the University of Kentucky-based White Oak Genetics and Tree Improvement Project (WOGTIP) to create a regional ...