A huge tree fell on an apartment building Thursday night in the Greenhaven neighborhood of Sacramento. A resident of the Waverly Flats apartments at Riverside Boulevard and Greenhaven Drive, where ...

Cork grows as a thick protective layer of outer bark, much thicker in the cork oak than in any other tree. Strange as it is to see a stripped cork oak with its lower 12 or 15 feet of dark inner ...

Cal Poly hosted a demonstration of a rare harvest of a cork oak tree, which grows on the San Luis Obispo campus, on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. The inside of the cork bark is brightly colored and cool ...

On May 30, 2024, under the shade of the UC Davis Arboretum’s 80-plus-year-old cork oak grove, a rarely seen exhibition of cork harvesting took place. This traditional practice, unfamiliar to most ...

All cork roads lead to Portugal, which is home to the world’s largest area of cork oak forests, covering around 730,000 hectares, or 1.8 million acres. “Portugal can be proud of being a ...

Cork comes from the bark of a cork oak tree, which can be harvested every seven years. “The trees are climate change resistant as they need little water, and can resist fires pretty well ...

The cork oak prefers acidic soils, and can be found in open woodlands and on hills and lower slopes at altitudes of 1,000 to 3,200 feet, especially in Portugal and Spain.

CORUCHE, Portugal — The rhythmic noise of axes whacking trees echoes in the depths of the cork oak forest. But in Coruche, a rural area south of the Tagus River known as Portugal’s “cork ...

"A single cork oak, which lives up to 200 years, can be harvested over 16 times." Extractors daub the next harvest date onto each tree after their job is complete.