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Along the Mississippi River, volunteers work to collect and plant acorns to save struggling forests
Boardman looks for acorns from the bur oak, pin oak and swamp white oak, the latter of which is particularly well-suited to the floodplain forest. And the numbers he puts up are impressive ...
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Squirrel credited for planting bur oak in homeowner's pot
Q: A squirrel must have planted a bur oak acorn in one of our pots last year, because we were blessed with a seedling this spring. It grew well (27 inches tall), although it was attacked by a ...
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Turn acorns into oak trees, Marion nonprofit urges
Acorns of four varieties of oak trees lie Feb. 18 in air pruning pots ... which species to provide and they landed on Northern Red, Bur, Chinkapin, Swamp White and Pin. “The Swamp White is ...