Q. I never thought I would be emailing you with a question, but here it is. We use white oak quite a bit and recently have had a sawmill offer us some post oak that he says is a white oak. Is this a ...

Q. We have some white oak lumber that has been air drying for about a year as we do not need it. I noticed that it seems to smell more like vanilla than the acid oak smell. Is this possible? A. You ...

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

Sawdust plumes filled the air as Wade Cotten guided a 72-inch chainsaw bar slowly and steadily through a massive 48-inch-wide, 11-foot-long white oak log, slicing off a 2 1/2-inch slab. Working for ...

Few average Joes can correctly identify every species of oak growing in North America. That’s the kind of Final Jeopardy-level knowledge typically reserved for foresters, wildlife biologists, and very ...

The white oak (Quercus alba) is a perennial tree of the Fagaceae family that best grows on rich, heavy, upland soil at a relatively slow growth rate of 12” to 24” every year. It is a medium to tall ...

You don’t have to hunt deer for very long to realize that oak trees and the acorns they drop each fall are hugely important to deer. If fact, most hunters know that the majority oak trees fall into ...

Greenwood Forestry CFO Mike Woolery examines a dead white oak tree during a Woodland Owner’s Association field session in Amana on Aug. 27. Foresters and tree professionals explored three locations to ...