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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Knowing Our Oaks
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:21
	Publish Date:		2018-07-10 06:01:00
	Description:		In this month's installment of Field Notes Scott Bowe of Kemp Station discusses Wisconsin’s oaks and how they are used in our daily lives. Oak trees are the most abundant trees in Wisconsin next to our maples. Oaks fall into the genus, Quercus, and are members of the Beech Family, Fagaceae. Oak is found across the United States and across the world in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and North Africa – absent only in Australia and Antarctica. There are more than 600 different species of oak. Wisconsin has nine native oak species. Let’s look at Wisconsin’s oaks and how they are used in our daily lives. First, oaks can be divided into two main groups: the red oak group and the white oak group. Species in the red oak group typically have leaves with a “V” shaped sinus and lobe tips, with spiny bristles on the lobe tip. In other words, the peaks and valleys around the leaf margin are pointed, like the bottom of the letter “V.” Acorns in the red oak group take two growing seasons to mature. In
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