Controlled burns at Oak Point Nature Preserve renews prairie land, provides training for wildfire firefighters
North Texas firefighters spent Thursday morning conducting controlled burns at Oak Point Park and Nature Preserve in East Plano. The goal is to weed out invasive species, renew the Blackland Prairie ...
Maple Fest set for this weekend at Red Oak Nature Center in North Aurora
Maple Fest, a tradition for more than 40 years, puts guests front and center to learn and experience the process of turning ...
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Planting oak trees for the future
On a recent warm, sunny February day, a group of volunteers gathered in the Tehachapi Mountains, working together to do what ...
The Gazette18d
Turn acorns into oak trees, Marion nonprofit urges
Some words may be mispronounced. Acorns develop in 2019 on an oak tree in Amana. Native oak trees can support hundreds of species of caterpillars, which in turn feed the birds. (The Gazette ...