There are gluts of acorns on the ground right now. This year looks like a mast year for oaks–a bumper crop of acorns. Mast is used to describe the fruit of woody plants associated with forests. A mast year refers to the simultaneous, abundant fruit production within a population of trees. How big is a […]
Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia), Oakland City Hall Plaza (This tree was planted in 1917.) A few weeks ago I received an alumni fund letter from the College of Environmental Design (CED) at UC Berkeley. Included in the letter was a well-designed leaflet about the re-oaking Oakland project undertaken by ProfessorsWalter Hood and Ron Rael […]
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