Homeowners may notice a bounty of acorns and other seeds being dropped by trees this season. That's because it's a mast year — a natural phenomenon when trees drop an overproduction of seeds in hopes ...

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Cover your head and don't look up! Naturalists say this is a "mast year" in much of the country, when hardwood trees drop an overabundance of nuts. SIMON: Good times for a walk in the woods to watch ...

Acorns cling to the leaves of an oak tree in the uptown area of Dallas on Nov. 15. Trees in North Texas are producing a lot amount of a acorns this year due to a natural phenomenon known as "masting." ...