Before you reach for the rake, find out whether all those fallen acorns are actually a problem for your lawn.

This might seem like a stretch to skeptical readers, but the Agassiz Audubon Society has launched an initiative putting blue jays to work as volunteers to increase oak tree numbers at the site of a ...

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This is the 408 th column I’ve written for The Columbus Dispatch, and I’ve rarely written about the same subject twice. “Nature” covers a lot of turf and it’d be easy to write a weekly column for ...

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Across Sonoma County, there’s a mass event taking place at twilight Sunday: hundreds of thousands of eager creatures will be out collecting treats — not the sugary variety, but an unusual bounty of ...