For some species, 40 years is prime time for nut-making. Hickory nuts are a different story. As an ecology teacher for more than a decade, I took my students on many field trips.

Dr. WOODS HUTCHINSON has expressed his belief that none but a Shawnee Indian in hickory-nut time would attempt to make a meal on nuts. Chemical tests show that in the slightly bitter integument of ...

BAT CAVE, N.C. — Conservation groups petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect Hickory Nut Gorge green salamanders under the Endangered Species Act. These green-splotched ...