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by Doug McCrearyOaks ‘n Folks – Volume 20, Issue 1 – January 2004In 2001, the California Legislature passed the California Oak Woodland Conservation Act. This Act grew out of concern that California’s oak woodland habitats were threatened and that the State was continuing to lose oaks to development,…

Oaks ‘n Folks – Volume 18, Issue 1 – February 2002 A new publication titled Regenerating Rangeland Oaks in California has recently been published by UC Communication Services. It outlines recommended procedures for successfully regenerating native California oaks, focusing primarily on blue oak and…

by Ralph KraetschOaks ‘n Folks – Volume 18, Issue 1 – February 2002The Oak Habitat Restoration Project in City of Walnut Creek Open Spaces was started in 1991 by several individuals who recognized that the heavily grazed oak woodlands and savannas of the City’s 2,700 acres of open space had little natural…

Oaks ‘n Folks – Volume 16, Issue 2 – August 2000In September 1998, the Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program hosted the Seventh Workshop on Seedling Physiology and Growth Problems in Oak Plantings at South Lake Tahoe. These workshops have been held every three years and began 20 years ago as a means…

by Eric Knapp, Kevin Rice, and Michael GoeddeOaks ‘n Folks – Volume 15, Issue 1 – March 2000Although the negative consequences of habitat fragmentation in forested landscapes are becoming better understood, we still know remarkably little about the effects of tree removal on the pollination dynamics of…

by Doug McCrearyOaks ‘n Folks – Volumne 14, Issue 2 – August 1999For the last several months, I have been living in southern England while working at the British Forestry Commission Research Station in Surrey. When driving around the English countryside, one notices that treeshelters seem to be everywhere…

In this issue: Pruning Ornamental Shrubs and Trees, Insect Trivia Quiz, Seed Catalogs - Present and Past, Insect Trivia Answers, Rosmarinus officinalis, International Year of Soils, Events Calendar

by Bill WeitkampOaks ‘n Folks – Volume 13, Issue 2 – August, 1998The federal Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), administered by the Farm Service Agency (FSA) (formerly the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service [ASCS]), was begun in 1985 to conserve and improve natural resources by taking…

In this issue: 2016 Gardener's Companion Calendar, Trees and Artificial Turf, Mosquitos, California Fuchsia, Some Truths About Neonicotinoids, Want to Help Bees?, Drought and Oaks, Questions About Oaks, Events Calendar

by Neil K. McDougald and Ralph PhillipsOaks ‘n Folks – Volume 13, Issue 2 – August, 1998Studies have demonstrated that a large number of blue oak seedlings exist in the southern Sierra foothill rangeland. However, few persist to the sapling stage (i.e., five to ten feet tall. How can we get these…