The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Since 2016, a dedicated group of nature enthusiasts and I have worked to restore and protect ...

Acorn woodpeckers love to collect acorns and “tattoo” them into the holes ... A ground squirrel boldly climbs the oak, only to find the entire tree is woodpecker property.

but acorns are all about the past, not the future. Whether an oak tree puts out a lot of acorns in a season depends on how many acorns it grew last year and the weather that year, and most ...

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 ...