Maureen and Mike Breskey love the 200-year-old oak trees shading their Burr Ridge yard. It’s the acorns they hate, nuts that ding their cars, clog the lawn mower, stain the neighbor’s white driveway ...

It’s a good year to be a squirrel. Maybe you’ve been surprised by the loud plunk of an acorn hitting your car or waded through clusters of them on the sidewalk. If you think you’ve noticed more acorns ...

DEAR WILDLIFE LOVER: I share your fascination with squirrels, which are abundant in New England. Gray squirrels are the most common, followed by red squirrels (which, curiously, are absent from Martha ...

Things that thud or go clank in the woods must be acorns if this is the end of September. I’ve been hearing and seeing them dropping of late. They clank off my Adirondack chairs. They thud hitting ...

These days, Americans are all about eating local foods. But one important local crop drops to the ground mostly unnoticed every fall. Well, unless you're a squirrel. Yes, we're talking about acorns.