Oaks ‘n’ Folks – Volume 9, Issue 2 – September 1994 Introduction During the past seven years, over a dozen oak field trials have been established at the Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center (SFREC). While we have discovered numerous
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Oaks ‘n’ Folks – Volume 2, Issue 2 – November, 1987 Introduction Armillaria mellea is a common soil-borne fungus that lives on a wide range of woody and herbaceous plants. Also known as oak root fungus, mushroom root rot, honey fungus
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Oaks ‘n’ Folks – Volume 2, Issue 2 – November, 1987 Introduction Did your oak tree lose its leaves early this year? Did they just seem to be eaten away? They well may have been, by one or both of
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Oaks ‘n’ Folks – Volume 2, Issue 1 – August, 1987 Introduction Oaks in California are valued as urban and park trees, as scenic adornment of Coast range and Sierra foothills, as food and cover for wildlife, and as shade
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Oaks ‘n Folks – Volume 18, Issue 12 – July, 2002 In California, increased residential development has resulted in conversion of oak woodlands to houses, roads, and recreational areas. The majority of oak woodlands in California’s North Coast are privately
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Oaks ‘n’ Folks – Volume 18, Issue 1 – February 2002 Effects of Rural Residential Development on the Breeding Birds of Placer County’s Foothill Oak Woodlands Placer County, which spans from the Central Valley to the crest of the Sierra
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Oaks ‘n’ Folks – Volume 16, Issue 2 – August 2000 In the late Pleistocene, California was home to a diverse suite of large vertebrates, including digging and rooting animals like the peccary and grizzly bear. These two species, along with
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Oaks ‘n Folks – Volume 15, Issue 1 – March 2000 No species is more intimately associated with oaks than the acorn woodpecker, a common resident of oak woodlands throughout California. Acorn woodpeckers eat acorns directly off trees in the
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A Collaborative Venture by California Partners in Flight Oaks ‘n’ Folks – Volume 12, Issue 2 – September, 1997 For most Californians, oak woodlands and their wildlife are a familiar and emblematic natural setting. Looking over rolling foothills of oaks
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Oaks ‘n” Folks – Volume 14, Issue 2 – August, 1999 California’s expanding human development is causing extensive habitat fragmentation and an expanded urban-wildland interface that threaten wildlife conservation. Undisturbed areas become islands of habitat surrounded by development, and habitat
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