Acorns and other nuts get all the attention in a mast year, but berries and fruits — 'soft mast' — are equally important for wildlife and forest ecosystems.

It's an oddness of modern life that you can eat a food for years and never know what the plant it comes from looks like. You might not know if the fruit, vegetable, or nut you're eating came from a ...

Whether we are basking in the sunshine, trying to jump mud puddles or complaining about how cold it is, our lives are ...