Oak trees are vital for wildlife in our area in many ways, but the Metroparks are currently removing all the dead ones to ...

Waiting until the leaves drop in fall is a rule of thumb for pruning shade trees, mainly because you can see bare limbs better, and the job is less “messy” without leaves attached to the cut branches.

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

Due to changing weather patterns caused by climate change, young white oak trees are struggling in Missouri forests. Foresters across the country are asking private landowners for help saving white ...

The University of Missouri Extension and the Department of Conservation are enlisting landowners to plant and care for white oak seedlings. The tree species is essential for wildlife and industry, but ...