David Stahle, Department of Geosciences, University of Arkansas In a state famous for exceptional trees, the blue oaks of ...

Kenya Creer, California State University, Long Beach, Department of Geography Through the acquisition, processing, and analysis of earth imagery, remote sensing has been at the forefront of mapping ...

TRAVERSE CITY, MI – Several rare Michigan natural habitats require fire not just to thrive, but to survive.

HOBART | Shirley Heinze Land Trust will hold a volunteer workday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Bur Oak Woods, an 84-acre remnant of Bur Oak savanna, one ...

The Post Oak Savanna was historically a patchwork of open grasslands and widely spaced trees, mainly post oaks and blackjack oaks. These scattered trees allowed enough sunlight to reach the ground ...

The trees you can expect to find include beech, maple, yellow poplar, oak, hickory, and mixed pine-hardwood. The alternate name is the southeastern mixed evergreen forest.

Oak habitat, which refers to oak woodlands and savannas, has declined from roughly 150,000 acres in the Willamette Valley in the mid-19th century to roughly 28,000 acres today, Maness said.

Videra Oak Meadow, a small undeveloped property with wetland areas, is the center of a fiery dispute between residents of the Braewood Hills neighborhood in Southeast Eugene and Piculell ...

The upcoming East Texas Fire and Nature Festival offers a perfect opportunity to learn more about the relationship between fire and our Pineywoods and Post Oak Savanna ecosystems.

A grassroots group of Romeo residents is hoping to acquire a five-acre vacant property in the village and turn it into a park with a small arboretum, an open lawn area and an oak savanna. The ...

Honestly, most of my work is in oak savanna here in the Willamette Valley, but also in southern Oregon. I’ve explored a little bit in California as well. Oak savanna is really fascinating.

There are three types of temperate savanna: elm, maple/oak, and shrub savanna. Temperate savannas concentrate in areas with annual precipitation of 330-420 mm, with soil types predominantly being ...